Sunday, 2 November 2008

Your Data - Unsafe In Their Hands

Ministers have been forced to order an emergency shutdown of a key Government computer system to protect millions of people's private details.

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.
ID card database, anyone...?
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3 comments:

  1. Old BE2 November 2008 at 08:04

    Haven't they heard of encryption?

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  2. Anonymous2 November 2008 at 11:24

    "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...

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  3. Anonymous3 November 2008 at 13:39

    They put the passwords on a memory stick?

    This is beyond incompetence.

    But nobody will be fired, of course.

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