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It’s only Monday and already we have an article that beggars belief. PwC’s soon to be crowned (tomorrow actually) chief Ian Powell comes out with this stonkingly dopey statement:
Mr Powell said limiting auditor liability was the key to helping newcomers develop and for alleviating the risk of a firm collapsing. The profession has long complained [...]
Written on June 30, 2008 | Posted in
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Nikki Ross Martin’s analysis of the Poynter Report is well worth reading. Key take-aways:
Information security, at the time of the incident, simply wasn’t a management priority;
Even had it been a priority, HMRC’s organisational design and the governance and accountabilities underpinning it would have made it extremely difficult for it to be felt as such;
Even with [...]
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These are my del.icio.us bookmarks for June 26th through June 30th:
blip.tv (beta) –
SEOmoz | The Evil Side of Google? Exploring Google’s User Data Collection – Want to know what Google knows about you? Here's a comprehensive list of 'stuff' it picks up from services you use.
Prem Sikka: Britain is the sleaze capital of the [...]
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Last Saturday afternoon I had a wonderful conversation with Francine McKenna. Despite our backwards and forwardsing on blog posts, it was the first time we’d spoken. As seems to be the case these days, Francine is exactly as I imagined. Don’t ask me to describe but it was all good and left me with plnety [...]
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