So long and thanks for all the bits
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So long and thanks for all the bits
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#2Ian Levy, UK National Cyber Security Centre’s departing Technical Director, discusses life, the universe, and everything.
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#3Worth the read just for the horrible B-17 bit used as opener. Good hook.
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#4First party thanked is the vendors
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#5> thanks for all the bits
Am I missing something here? What's the headline supposed to mean? Is it a tongue-in-cheek gesture, since GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?
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#6> thanks for all the bits Am I missing something here? What's the headline supposed to mean? Is it a tongue-in-cheek gesture, since GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?
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#7> thanks for all the bits Am I missing something here? What's the headline supposed to mean? Is it a tongue-in-cheek gesture, since GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?
it's from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long,_and_Thanks_for_All_...
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#8Worth the read just for the horrible B-17 bit used as opener. Good hook.
Yeah I'm mentally filing that image [1] away for later use.
[1]: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/static-assets/images/blog-post/instr...
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#9> thanks for all the bits Am I missing something here? What's the headline supposed to mean? Is it a tongue-in-cheek gesture, since GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?
It's a paraphrase or restatement of the phrase "so long and thanks for all the fish", the title of one of the books in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Changing "fish" to "bits" is interesting, as it could be "just" a reference to life in the modern age and that this individual is leaving a techie oriented job that deals with "bits and bytes". Or it could be a really on the nose "joke" making light of exactly what you say:
"GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?"
It's hard to say which it really is.
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#10> thanks for all the bits Am I missing something here? What's the headline supposed to mean? Is it a tongue-in-cheek gesture, since GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?
It's a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "Goodbye and thanks for all the fish" as the dolphins abandon planet earth IIRC.