If it wasn't gov.uk this would be unbeleivable. Sadly this level of data security is fast becoming normal for them.
Obviously they are far too busy building new super-databases to bother securing the ones they aready have. I suppose this is the end result of 'competitive tendering'.. pay peanuts, get monkeys. Jim. Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: > "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. > > An urgent investigation is now under way into how the stick, belonging to the > company which runs the flagship system, came to be lost. > > The lost memory stick was found two weeks ago outside a Brewers Fayre chain > pub in Cannock, Staffordshire, but the Department of Work and Pensions, > which owns the Government Gateway, was made aware of its loss only last week > when the 2in device was passed to this newspaper. > > An expert who examined it for The Mail on Sunday said it contained > confidential passwords, security software and the technical blueprint to the > system known as the 'source code'. > The memory stick is now in the hands of the police." > --clip-- -- == Digital Daemons IT Services == ------------------------------------- = Signed/Encrypted mail preferred = = GnuPG Key ID 0x0AD3FFB0 = ------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
