I was looking for a piece of information earlier today and stumbled across a PDF document online courtesy of Google. It turns out that the document is a 'leaked' "Commercially in Confidence" report of the National Audit Office on the NHS's National Programme for IT. The copy I was looking at was on the BBC website. There are some things in the report which would come as no surprise for most professionals, but obviously the press picked up on them and had a field day. What is really interesting though is that either the source or the BBC chose to black out some of the text which they deemed particularly sensitive. Therefore you can't read it in the PDF...
...or can you?
Of course you can. You simply select the blacked out text and cut and paste it into another application. Hey presto, you can read it as plain as day.
It makes for interesting reading, but my point is that office applications are so feature rich these days that users often lose out in the security stakes to them. "Track changes" in Microsoft Word is also a great example. The contracts I, or my colleagues, have been sent where you can recollect the internal discussions and tactics of the opposite parties, never cease to surprise me.
Tags: Acrobat, Adobe, CfH, Connecting for health, NPfIT, National Programme for IT, commercially in confidence, information governance, Microsoft, Word, healthcare, Healthcare IT, NHS, health care, NAO, National Audit Office, security
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