This is pretty much the news of last year, which formally made it to the news just yesterday.

PM couldn’t email for three months.

The prime minister’s office email system was under the grip of a computer virus for three months last year, forcing officials to replace the software. The technical glitch plagued the email system, based on Microsoft Outlook Express, from February to April in 2008. 

Although the extent of damage is uncertain, the PMO said most emails addressed to it were not received. The problem was detected only late April, after which the software was replaced.

So the PMO doesn’t receive any emails for 3 long months, and they don’t notice anything different. None of the world leaders send a “Wazzzzup dude ?” and no one cares. They don’t even receive spam that claims will help them increase the size of their .. err .. cabinet and still don’t think it is weird. No complaints received from the common man either and they probably prefer saying “Wow .. we must like .. totally rock man !”.

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