Thursday, 12 June 2008

Careless data loss costs lives

Well, it's happened again. A file containing secret confidential details af Al Qaeda stuff was left on a train, and handed in to the BBC, who very public spiritedly handed it back to the gov. Left on the train by a high ranking (suspended) gov civil servant.

Just to go along with losing personal data of several thousand social security personal details in the post, a stolen laptop containing details of naval personal from a burger bar, and many other examples of lackadaisical data security, followed by a round of empty assurances of clampdowns on these security breaches, and enquiries that we never hear anything more about.

There's a lesson to be learnt somewhere.

Oh, yeah, that's right - try and gag the BBC more effectively.

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