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[Nickbat]

Confidential details of 15 million child benefit recipients are on computer discs lost by HM Revenue and Customs  


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm


Hell's teeth. What's going wrong with this country?  

[STMO123]

Yep. Just heard it on the news

Hands off my slogan

[STMO123]

I'm off to draw all my money (£7.50) out of the bank and stuff it under my matress. Safest option these days.

[Jimbob]

what on earth were the details doing on a disk anyway!

they belong purely on the computer, and it's backup, there is NO need to transport them anywhere else!

[Marks DTM Calib]

Surely the government use Pointsec or similar to scramble thier data.

[Danny]

Confidential details of 15 million child benefit recipients are on computer discs lost by HM Revenue and Customs  


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm


Hell's teeth. What's going wrong with this country?  

bit too late to ask i think!!

[Jimbob]

Surely the government use Pointsec or similar to scramble thier data.

A system that has great success in denying me access to my own laptop  

[Marks DTM Calib]

Surely the government use Pointsec or similar to scramble thier data.

A system that has great success in denying me access to my own laptop  

Works fine on  mine.......finger trouble Jim?

[Jimbob]

Surely the government use Pointsec or similar to scramble thier data.

A system that has great success in denying me access to my own laptop  

Works fine on  mine.......finger trouble Jim?

To use your favourite word, an 'engineer' issue  

been fine once I was finally set up right.

The 'engineer' in his infite wisdom, instead of creating me a user account, copied his own.
Trouble is engineer accounts expire after 60 days

so 60 days into a new laptop, and access denied

Have you ever had to go through the remote reauthentication procedure, read out very long numbers and response codes!

3 times this happened before someone worked out the correct way to fix it.

annoyingly always locked me out when I needed my laptop at 3am to fix a production problem, or was working from home.

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44250000/jpg/_44250589_paulgray203cr_pa.jpg

 If you were to guess that man's profession, you'd be torn between "taxman" and "exorcist"...

[Tony H]

Want to steal someones I.D" pick a card, any card "someone could have fifteen million to choose from

[Markjay]

Surely the government use Pointsec or similar to scramble thier data.

But still, sending it by post....? This reminds me of days of old, before the Dunblane massacre, when it was possible for sport shooters to order a pistol or revolver by post. All you had to do was send your firearm certificate and a cheque and in return the shop sent you your brand new Glock or S&W by First Class Royal Mail.... sheer madness if you ask me, luckily the Home Office stopped this practice after criminals took advantage of the system (surprise surprise) to obtain firearms.