From GCHQ’s careers website, read by Jeremy Hardy:
“GCHQ is heavily dependent on its use of technology in order to execute its vital intelligence mission. An increasingly rapidly changing digital world demands a furious pace of innovation in our technical systems. We achieve this with the support of modern technologies, the right skills and an appetite to learn. Please submit a CV in Word format – please note at present we do not have the software to read Word 2007 documents.”
Supposedly OpenOffice is now MS Word 2007 compatible:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/13/openoffice_review/
(I assume they can read Word 2007 documents if they need to for security reasons, but haven’t bothered licencing it for normal office use.)
Heh. That sounds about right. =:o}
So they can intercept terrorist communications as long as they don’t use Word 2007?
*laugh* I love government!
I would have been a lot more impressed if it had said “Please apply by placing your CV on the web – anywhere, we’ll find it”
I am so comforted by their incompetance. It’s not as though anyone would ever hide anythng nasty like a virus in a Word document…