On Sat, 19 May 2007 03:29:26 +0100, [H]omer wrote:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> Police Career - Linux Computer Systems in Law Enforcement
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>> | Kent Police have lowered the cost of running their major criminal
>> | investigations system by a factor of 90%...
>
> There's that ... and the fact that criminal investigations are one of
> many critical applications where people cannot risk nonsense like BSODs.
>
> I can just imagine the reaction of some Copper confronted by a WGA
> notification that "This copy of Windows is not genuine" after doing a
> Windows "update".
>
More importantly, criminal investigations are a matter of secrecy. They
cannot risk their machines being infected by a virus that sends this
private data out to someone else for who knows what purpose.
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