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[JamesV6CDX]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7138408.stm

[Kevin Wood]

The mind boggles. I think the only times I have carried data around on a disc in the last decade have been because something needs to boot from them, yet men scurrying around with unencrypted discs seems to be the cornerstone of every government IT system.

 

.. and another horrendous waste of stamps telling everyone they can shut the stable door now, cos the horse has fscked off.

Kevin

[Jay w]

so now there are discs flying around that allow us, our cars and about driving licences.......

before long we will find that we have been 'virtually twinned'

[Ken T]

And a recent UK report recommends that CEO's who's companies loose data should go to jail, http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=522&tag=nl.e539 . Now that's a good idea, we can start locking up the politicians who's departments loose stuff.  

Ken

[ians]

It beggers belief.

Don't these organisations have secure networks?  

Aside from actually losing the disks, these people just don't seem to get it.
' Oh if we can just find the disks then everything will be allright.'   B@llocks it will - do these numbskulls not think that criminals know how to copy disks?

[Crazydad]

This sort of thing is making the Government look like fools, why not,(if they have to at all) send such Information via Private courier

[Jay w]

This sort of thing is making the Government look like fools, why not,(if they have to at all) send such Information via Private courier

cost......

these dept.s are pushed and pushed to reduce cost......but at what cost.....our personal details.

i'm not saying the couriers are bad, just that there should be more care with our personal info...this is making the govt. look like a bunch of muppets who couldn't organise an orgy in a brothel

[Varche]

I read somewhere that a bunch of these people had a meeting and despite the fact that the outfit that wanted the 25 million names and addresses had said repeatedly they didn't need all the rest of the data they didn't strip it out because it would have cost an extra £5000.

I wonder how many of those people and the dept who posted it have still got their jobs. My guess is all of them. there seems to be no accountability anymore for incompetence.  

I worked for a company that drilled into us the data protection act. We would have been sacked for far far less.

varche  

[Kevin Wood]

I read somewhere that a bunch of these people had a meeting and despite the fact that the outfit that wanted the 25 million names and addresses had said repeatedly they didn't need all the rest of the data they didn't strip it out because it would have cost an extra £5000.

I wonder how many of those people and the dept who posted it have still got their jobs. My guess is all of them. there seems to be no accountability anymore for incompetence.  

I worked for a company that drilled into us the data protection act. We would have been sacked for far far less.

varche  

5k to write a database query and dump the results to a CD Where do I sign?

Kevin

[cem_devecioglu]

half hour job including back up