UK Serious Fraud Office Probes Autonomy With ... Autonomy!
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judgecorp writes "The British Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating whether British software firm Autonomy fiddled its accounts to inflate the price which HP paid for it to a whopping $10 billion. There's a problem though. Autonomy's Introspect software is used to trawl large data sets for information and is in use at the SFO for jobs such as this fraud investigation. It's not just ironic: the SFO says its £4.6 million contract with Autonomy could create a conflict of interest and it may have to pull out of the investigation."
In other words (Score:4, Funny)
Serious Fraud Office: (Score:5, Funny)
Thank heaven it's not the Frivolous and Silly Fraud Office.
Serious Fraud Office? (Score:5, Funny)
"Good afternoon, this is the Serious Fraud Office."
"Seriously?"
"Seriously."
"I'm not sure my fraud problem is that serious."
"Ah, you're looking for the Frivolous Fraud Office. That's down the hall."
Re:Not sure if it's a conflict (Score:5, Funny)
Easy solution: require Autonomy to make available detailed logs of their server activity so that any fiddling can be detected. Then use Autonomy software to analyze those logs for any suspicious activity.
Re:Not sure if it's a conflict (Score:4, Funny)
Suppose you're investigating Microsoft. Are you not allowed to use Windows, Word, Excel, Outlook?
Of course you aren't, all such investigations are to be performed from secured GNU/Hurd workstations!