Shouldn't this be on community by now?

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Jordan
Sent: 17 March 2005 05:15
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [U2]: Epicor

We have seen a couple of cases where the CFO has gone to jail for
carrying
out an illegal action.  The CFO gained no financial advantage, whilst
the
CEO who gained the financial advantage actually never went to jail.  In
the
UK a programmer got into serious trouble when programming who got
university
places.  After exhausting a variety of priority issues such as marks to
decide who would get a position, he then made a decision based on skin
colour.  

Programmers are regarded as professional/educated people by the courts
and
the courts view is that a programmer should no better when programming
improper code.  (Ignorance is no excuse) If a programmer modifies the
code
so the CFO does not pay the correct tax, then the court regards the
programmer as an accomplice to the crime.  The court's view is that a
threat
of sacking is not an excuse to commit a crime.

Bill is right some IT people will be in for a horrific shock as they
could
be caught up in fraud, privacy issues, spam and other areas and most
have
not considered their legal implications.

Regards 
David Jordan

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill H.
Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2005 5:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [U2]: Epicor

Don:

There are a number or current laws and regulations that attempt to rid
public corporations of this kind of mismanagement.  The result of these
new
regulations may not so much be the reduction of corporate financial and
IT
mismanagement, but the transfer of responsibility to lower level staff.
:-(

It may come to pass that you'll be held personally liable for someone
else's
indiscriminate "business requirements".  For those of us who think it is
our
role to provide others with the ability to trash the integrity of the
organization's financial information; a rude awakening awaits!

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Kibbey
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:15 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [U2]: Epicor
> 
> Our resident "Bean Counters" have asked for and received 
> several tools from me that will allow them to do the same 
> thing to our system.  It's our job to provide the "sharp 
> knives", the CPA types have to be carefull not to remove 
> appendages with said tools.
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