mattx Posted November 20, 2007 Posted November 20, 2007 God you have to be a real geek to laugh at this picture... http://img702.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2007/11/20/childbenefitcdmininovasml-48khsxhuq.jpg
tech_guy Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 Don't laugh it's gonna be real and out there soon!
Oops_my_bad Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 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 Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 Whoa so I can sleep easy in my bed tonight knowing some Russian gangster isn't going to empty my bank account.....
tech_guy Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 Can the UK Govt please bend over so we can give you a collective kick up the ass....
Oops_my_bad Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 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 Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 Either that or you have to live in the UK and be a geek.....
Guest richard Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 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 Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 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 Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 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 Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 *raises hand* LOL Awesome - and to think, I skipped straight down to TV for Heroes... Anyone download?!??!
Guest richard Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 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.
tech_guy Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 Isn't this government great - inflicting the possibility of identity theft on 25m of its subjects until the day they die and beyond?!
CyberNerd Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 why were they letting 'junior officials' (lowly untrained techs I assume) download the entire database anyway :?
mattx Posted November 21, 2007 Author Posted November 21, 2007 Awesome - and to think, I skipped straight down to TV for Heroes... Anyone download?!??! Errrrr, yes - me - a while ago - I watched them all in about a week. Also guilty of watching entire season's of 24 within 3 days. Currently catching up on Law & Order SVU......
Quackers Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 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 You think thats bad, a Big Blue company has the contract for one of the big banks to deal with all sales transactions and that information is sent over the internet in clear text 8O , they think thats fine though. I know because my friend works for this big blue company.
tech_guy Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 We once found blowing down the street computer printouts that detailed the credit/finance details of customers buying cars on HP from one of the local major car dealers - about 2000 names in all. I went cold when I picked it up and saw what it was.
Friez Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 I was waiting for the torrent to come up! Better still have seeders when I get home! As for the 'office junior' Thats just a lame attempt at scapegoating from the upper echelons. Said junior wouldn't have sent that data if there wasn't some order from up above to have said data sent... Some government officials should go through a trial of breaching the data protection act 25 million times if you ask me.
mattx Posted November 21, 2007 Author Posted November 21, 2007 HA HA: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=290184203092 I wonder how long this will stay up ?
greenfieldsupport Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 lol id say that that guy would get in trouble.... but he could argue it was identity theft and someone stole his account
gwendes Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 He lives where I live! LOL! @ Mattx - You know we're onto Heroes S02E09 now! I watched the first series in a weekend and the first five episodes I a couple of evenings a few weeks ago. Not as good as the first series... (sooooo off-topic now)
webman Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 And these clowns wanted to implement and manage a national identity card system? HA!
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