God you have to be a real geek to laugh at this picture...

[mattx]

God you have to be a real geek to laugh at this picture...

[russdev]

ok hands up all those who laughed...

Russ

[Oops_my_bad]

HAW HAW!

[tech_guy]

Don't laugh it's gonna be real and out there soon!

[Oops_my_bad]

i agree..i shouldn't be laughing. But fear not the CD's were password protected and we all know how unbreakable excel passwords are

[tech_guy]

Whoa so I can sleep easy in my bed tonight knowing some Russian gangster isn't going to empty my bank account.....

[tech_guy]

Can the UK Govt please bend over so we can give you a collective kick up the ass....

[Oops_my_bad]

Everyone who has been affected by this should at the very least close their bank account and re-open under a new account number.

[rrichmond]

Either that or you have to live in the UK and be a geek.....

[ICT_GUY]

lol.

[richard]

i agree..i shouldn't be laughing. But fear not the CD's were password protected and we all know how unbreakable excel passwords are

It actually looks like the cd's were NOT encrypted at all.

[Heebeejeebee]

i agree..i shouldn't be laughing. But fear not the CD's were password protected and we all know how unbreakable excel passwords are

It actually looks like the cd's were NOT encrypted at all.

8O

How much of a bollocking would we get if we 'lost' our student databases?

DPA my arse.

HBJB

[CyberNerd]

How much of a bollocking would we get if we 'lost' our student databases?

Ours gets the unencrypted ftp treatment to county :? They can't get their head around sftp

but seriously this happens all the time in Department of Work and Pensions - they send unencrypted disks of all benefit claimants to borough councils to update the local databases. cd updates get sent once per month IIRC.

[gwendes]

*raises hand*

LOL

Awesome - and to think, I skipped straight down to TV for Heroes...

Anyone download?!??!

[richard]

How much of a bollocking would we get if we 'lost' our student databases?

Ours gets the unencrypted ftp treatment to county :? They can't get their head around sftp

but seriously this happens all the time in Department of Work and Pensions - they send unencrypted disks of all benefit claimants to borough councils to update the local databases. cd updates get sent once per month IIRC.

I know someone who works for the DWP and they have said that on average that a disk of data is lost every 2 months around the country.