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BBC Shuts Down Internal BlackBerry Service

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the but-i-thought-sharing-information-was-good dept.

sebFlyte writes "Silicon.com is running a story on a little problem the BBC is having with their email. Apparently, the BBC has suspended service to all its executives BlackBerrys, because the server software was randomly sending chunks of messages to arbitrary users, thus showing execs each others emails. Not what you want from your remote-working solution, really."

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  1. news by akhomerun · · Score: 0, Troll

    "news for nerds, stuff that matters"

    news - an email bug affecting 300 people is not news
    for nerds - email isn't nerdy
    stuff - it is indeed stuff
    that matters - 300 people getting their email shut off for a couple weeks is not news at all. it isn't even their PC email, it's email sent JUST between blackberries.

    this story is so useless that i'm not even going to finish my