SARS is making changes following Adobe Flash issues

[BusinessTech]

SARS is making changes following Adobe Flash issues

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has issued an 'unreserved apology' after its services were disrupted by the termination of support of the Adobe Flash platform.

 

[Messugga]

SARS is making changes following Adobe Flash issues

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has issued an 'unreserved apology' after its services were disrupted by the termination of support of the Adobe Flash platform.

Stop apologizing and start showing repercussions for those individuals incapable of doing their jobs.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

On the ball as usual!

After a long history of security troubles, Adobe finally gave up. Yesterday, July 25th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the world found out when Flash will be officially no more: End of 2020.

Adobe Flash End of Life Timeline [infographic] - CoderHood

I created an Adobe Flash End of Life Timeline infographic to show the various browser updates during the next few years.

www.coderhood.com

 

[rvZA]

Stop apologizing and start showing repercussions for those individuals incapable of doing their jobs.

And also stop blaming external problems like "Flash Ending". They knew about this for years. The whole world were informed some years ago that it would come to an end. This is purely gross negligence, if not criminality from SARS not to have responded and made changes years ago.

 

[ToxicBunny]

The entire IT management team must be fired immediately for this.

This issue has been known about for 3.5 years. That is enough time to have completed the migration to HTML5 forms.

 

[RedViking]

Don't worry, they have everything under control

 

[ShaunSA]

That's what happens when you take your shag and give them a top job

 

[Rocket-Boy]

Its far too late to be thinking of changes now.
There is going to be a fair amount of development work and that process is not quick.

 

[Moosedrool]

Don't worry, they have everything under control

This is actually frightening. Not really funny.

 

[ToxicBunny]

This is actually frightening. Not really funny.

Incredibly frightening. That was in charge of the IT strategy for SARS is just dire, and it actually explains why they're still on Flash.

 

[HavocXphere]

The 3 year advance notice was clearly not enough. It snuck up on them so quickly

 

[John_Phoenix]

And we'll be the beta testers... And get charged... Lovely little racket sars has going here.

Everyone should claim, "the system is offline" and take a tea break / not file returns / docs.

Imagine sars gets something like a 3% return rate... Heads would surely roll.