2 December (Part 1) - Bexley council - making life difficult again
If the
GCHQ puzzle aimed at recruiting would-be spies
has defeated you, maybe this one from Bexley council will prove easier. It is a
response to a Freedom of Information request and refers the questioner to the
council’s website which may well be a sensible response if provided in a form
that can be clicked on, but not otherwise. This one arrived as an email
attachment but with any hot-linking it may once have had disabled.
The recipient sent it to me for decoding but all attempts at cutting and pasting
failed and after laboriously typing it out and checking it many times it still
results in ‘Page not found’. Maybe it is the latest in Bexley council’s armoury of
techniques to frustrate questioning. If anyone manages to decode the link shown in
the image I would be very grateful to receive it.
An older technique is to send Microsoft Word documents which require the recipient to
have spent a lot of money on software or have greater than average knowledge of
Information Technology and to own a compatible piece of hardware. I acknowledge
that Bexley council is far from being the only offender but, nevertheless, it’s
not an open and transparent approach to democracy.
As reported a few days ago, there is a dearth of Bexley council related news at
present. There are a few stories brewing, the juiciest involves deception of the
Planning Committee and suppression of a government inspector’s report. Looks
like a return to form by Bexley council.
P.S. This competition is now closed. Thanks to detective work by a reader the
page is available by clicking
here.