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What a muppet

Now back in the day a Special Faults Investigation would have found this issue. Technology moves on only to be scuppered by a Valve !!!

For once in his life Boris has said something that the market likes.

The only thing I would say is that section C is covered by the Crown Guarantee, if you move out and something goes wrong then that’s that. Good luck with how you chose to move forward...

Are Wealth at Work, still doing pension seminars at BT. If so then I would seek there advice, it was a free consultation a few years ago. They look at your whole situation, savings, your goals, time left to your pension etc. They are totally independent.

Hi. It would depend on which scheme you are in. If it’s section B or C ( finally salary/ career average ) then you need to think very carefully as I would think it would be very difficult to match those benefits. If it’s one of the newer pensions then you really need expert independent advice.

As long as a company is using robust connectivity security as mentioned earlier, then the only really weak link is the same wherever the location is, the individual. In my experience once a year I had to read a computing security document outlining my responsibilities, I then had to make a declaration that I understood it and would comply with it. Any company will make sure this type of process is in place and look to enforce it. A manager would have to sign off that they have inspected the intended work location and are happy that all is correct. Many home workers will only be involved in internal process having little contact with sensitive information that could bu used in a fraudulent way by persons able to eavesdrop. There will always be the odd situation where something goes wrong that could cause a data breach. I would be more concerned by a database hack than something that might be seen on a screen in the kitchen.
Just remember this working from home is nothing new, just more people now doing it, the security protocols have been around for many years.

You can take the Horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.

Think you are missing the point. It matters not where you are located, you would have a responsibility to ensure that to the best of your ability any information you have access to remains confidential at all times. You should not disclose any information to anybody unless it directly affects there ability to perform there job or task. Home workers would be advised not to place screens, printers, or documents in locations that could make them insecure by sight, ie no screen should face a window. Most home workers are probably advised to connect to there router via an Ethernet cable rather than WiFi and may well be provided with mains adaptors to do this if they are not located near there router. That way no one could capture un incepted data.
Would it be any different if you gave your credit card info over the phone to purchase something and the operative noted down your details for there own gain. Would not matter where they were located they would do it if inclined. In fact frauds would be less likely from home workers than office based ones, it would be easer to identify them.

I would think it would be down to the employe to ensure that any confidential information that may be on the screen is not viewed by a non authorised person. Same could apply in an office, you may work in a function that others do not have access to, if another staff member came to your desk that did not have that access, then you would have to ensure that the information was hidden from them whilst at your desk. Same for a field operative ensuring that a customer cannot see confidential information whilst working in there premises . Shut The Lid.

Fleccy. At the time all laptop MAC addresses were used as part of the login to the VPN as only registered addresses were given access. This may well have changed over the last 4-5 years. One of my rolls was to change out the laptops as they were upgraded for our job function one of the biggest issues on changing them out was the new MAC not being on the database and having to get it added over the phone. And people with sticky fingers playing with things before the change out was done !!!

Milli. Most will, like I did when working for BT, use a VPN, virtual private network, to establish the link. That in my case was, a laptop that was identified by its MAC address that is unique, my ID and password, that changed every 28 days and a unique number generated by a token, much like some banks do if you have a home card reader. After that access to systems was incepted and used ID and other passwords. So it is fairly secure from your average hacker. There are simpler ways but most would at least use a VPN link as the very least.

When we had the last crash around 2008-20010 BT thought they would need to cut staff due to an expected decline in BB and business connections. That is not what happened, people saw there internet connection as a necessity for day to day life, business saw it in a good time to upgrade there networks, the mobile operators started to ramp up there new fibre connections for rolling out 4g. BT ended up taking on more staff.
Similar is happening now, business now realise that they do not need as many offices as they did, staff can work from home most of the time. As a result they are starting to have additional BB connections into homes where that is practical ( is there enough copper at the location to supply) they may well shut some locations but, will need to upgrade their networks to handle the extra capacity coming in from outside. So as in the last crash BT have a very good chance of coming out the other side better than they entered it.

Opinion appears to be good. Up today...

Jack. Understand your line but, Scotland voted for independence in 2014 and rejected it. So in 2016 all 4 areas of the UK voted and us remains lost, that is that we all had our say. As for international law, well Boris will get his fingers burnt ( I hope) yet again, there are some politicians with morals thankfully.

Time to end this pointless thread me thinks.

“ NDN - the original point was to demonstrate the duplicity of our governments position “
And this is a surprise?
Ever since Boris, Gove and Cummings took over around a year ago this sort of thing was going to happen. Accept it and in just over 4 years time they will get there just rewards, one way or another. Until then Brexit has happened accept it for now and the population will then decided how well, or not the above have done. You can’t live in the past accept it for now until you are given the chance to give your decision on there worth, banging on about Brexit on this forum is not making you any friends so please move on. For the record, again, I voted remain, but accept that it’s not going to happen.

Aus. What point are you trying to make with your original post ?
We may or may not reach a deal with the EU, either way we will still need to make deals with other countries to avoid tariffs. What dose it matter weather those agreement are tighter or slacker than an other one. Any agreement will have it’s own boundaries but not affect another deal with someone else in other trade areas.

If we don’t let them fish, will they “ Su chi “ us ?

Sorry it won’t spell correctly, perhaps my iPad knows something we don’t.