Longrider poses the question:Here’s an easy question. What do the following have in common - people on housing benefit, people getting child benefit, people wanting to be RAF pilots or Royal Marines, people in hospital and people learning to drive? The answer is that they have all had their personal details lost through government incompetence. And here’s another question. With the national database for ID cards looming, just how much do you trust the government to keep your identity details safe?
Right - so we're not in disagreement over the incompetence but the level of it raises other questions. It's so regularly revealed to the media and they so public pronounce on it with handwringing aqpology that surely one's suspicions are aroused. All public sectors have levels of incompetence but this seems almost to have been orchestrated.
Now what could be a possible reason for this? Perhaps that the people are so sick and tired of it that they throw out the corrupt, self-serving, incompetent bastards and usher in the new slick, efficient EUmodel which looks after the common person's interests with the only drawback being the little chip in the right wrist.
Why not? They laughed at Noah. Time will tell.
Actually, it was Jackie Ashley posing the question - I was quoting her ;)
ReplyDeleteTwo of my friends details were on those missing disks. One on the DVLA the other one the tax office.
ReplyDeleteFor as much as identity theft is a growing threat these days, the government and other such bodies seem to be making it ridiculously easy for them instead of making it harder.
How can we trust them with identity cards? I don't think we can.
It is obviously orchestrated.
ReplyDeleteProbably a gov't capitulation on this, to soothe the revolting, then either banks or mobile phone Co's admin. the databases.
As they do now.
Might help get rid of hundreds of thousands of useless public, ermm, locusts, too.
They'll have to alter the public immunity laws though.
YEE HAAWW for big business!
Oops again - I'm always getting you wrong. I always act like a prat near you, Longrider.
ReplyDeleteOestre - I don't trust them one little bit.
Anon - right on.
Is it orchestrated? You have a point there. Either someone has an agenda to discredit the powers-that-be, there has always been cock-ups since the dawn of time. Its human nature.
ReplyDeleteOr, the whole set-up is run by a bunch of bungling incompetents who should really be on the dole.
Definitly a rabbit off somewhere.
It does seem orchestrated - too many incidents too close together to not raise that suspicion.
ReplyDeleteHmm, now that you mention it it could be orchestrated. I must be a simple soul because I can't understand why laptops storing such sensitive information were ever allowed out of the offices.
ReplyDeleteGot to laugh. This is how conspiracy theories start.
ReplyDeleteThese departments have been doing this since they had to chip things out of stone and unauthorised people have been accessing information since the first pile of chipping was made.
The leaks are not orchestrated. What is orchestrated is that the media and insiders are no longer hiding these things and protecting our guilty incompetents.
Laptops are used to hold sensetive information because they are so easy to move around and protect. The data is used for presentations and reporting and can be updated and searched very easily. It's the reason for all technology tomakeour lives easier.
However a laptop with secure data on it going missing where there is virtually no chance of someone getting to the data becauseof encryption and data provided in readable form on DVD are still recorded as breaches. In the MOD it can lead to a court martial. In government circles only a cover up.
I have no doubt that the current spate of disclosures is because after the screaming about the tax records leaks are seen as news worthy. In a few months there won't be much more said and it won't be because there are none it just means they are old news.
However a laptop with secure data on it going missing where there is virtually no chance of someone getting to the data because of encryption.
ReplyDeleteOH REALLY?
Anon. It takes a government body to afford to crack decent modern encryption. Yet the data is made available to almost anyone working in the department who pass a security check.
ReplyDeleteOf course having encryption and using it are two different things.
Which do you think is the weakest link? A encrypted laptop or a student on £8K with access directly to the data.