BBC NEWS | UK | Tax staff breach data security
Roger Hird
ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Thu, 01 May 2008 11:47:34 +0100
In article <4819A1C6.6685.6EEE8F@davidh.spidacom.co.uk>,
David Hansen <davidh@spidacom.co.uk> wrote:
> So, it is now a business. Fascinating.
It's current Civil-Service-speak: just as taxpayers are "customers".
But actually what civil servants do has always been "business" in the
dictionary sense: "public business" - though it's a rather 19th century
term.
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Roger Hird
roger.hird@argonet.co.uk
Running RISCOS 4.39 on an Acorn StrongARM RiscPC