Ministers have been forced to order an emergency shutdown of a key Government computer system to protect millions of people's private details.ID card database, anyone...?
The action was taken after a memory stick was found in a pub car park containing confidential passcodes to the online Government Gateway system, which covers everything from tax returns to parking tickets.
Sunday 2 November 2008
Your Data - Unsafe In Their Hands
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3 comments:
Haven't they heard of encryption?
"Haven't they heard of encryption?"
Indeed. Or, perhaps, of disabling USB ports so people can't make off with this data uncontrolled in the first place...
They put the passwords on a memory stick?
This is beyond incompetence.
But nobody will be fired, of course.
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