What we're really seeing here is an attempt by -anyone- with an agenda is using the incident to promote it. God's in his Press Office, all's right with the world...
>From El Reg's security alert feed: "Senior officials now in frame for HMRC data fiasco UK Identity Crisis: Union says security crisis should mean job cut halt...Senior officials were involved in the decision to post the UK's child benefit database on unencrypted CDs, it emerged overnight. Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, said decisions were made at a higher level and that the NAO asked for the data be "desensitised" but this was rejected on grounds of expense...." http://go.theregister.com/i/cft/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/22/darl ing_disaster_good_id_cards/ -- David Harley AVIEN Interim Administrator: http://www.avien.org http://www.smallblue-greenworld.co.uk _______________________________________________ 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.
