Security
As the government announces that 25million records have been lost including social security numbers, bank details etc, I can only shake my head at the reports and comments.
“It was sent by someone at a low-level”. So someone at a low-level can get _hold_ of this information in the first place - that shows an appalling lack of security in my opinion.
“Sent by CD - it should have been sent over the network”. Er, you can capture network traffic too, in fact, it’s arguably _less_ secure.
One report I saw said that was encrypted. Depending on the quality of the encryption and the care with which the key is controlled, that could make this almost a complete non-issue. On the other hand I wouldn’t hold out much hope that all the above are true.
Security - hard to get everything right, easy to get something wrong. However I’m normally not disappointed at how _many_ things people get wrong.
Posted: November 20th, 2007 under Life Rants.
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