Undo... undo! The Bank of England is right to ban autocomplete emails

Staff at Britain's central bank will now have to type out the name of every single person they send an email to, after a blunder led to confidential plans being forwarded to the Guardian

Autocomplete, we can all agree, is the work of the devil. Its potential for disaster is huge. It's so dangerous, in fact, that the Bank of England has been forced to permanently disable it in its emails.

The reason? You're looking at it. Details of the top-secret Project Bookend - the bank's contingency plan in the event of Britain leaving the EU, unknown even to most of its employees - were emailed to the Guardian by accident last month, all because someone at the bank became temporarily fat-fingered and didn't notice the system was accidentally sending it to a newspaper. And now, to ensure that a catastrophe of this scale never happens again, everyone at the Bank of England has to laboriously hammer out every single character of every single email address they ever write.