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**ttoothh** · 11-22-2007, 11:12 AM

After Darling carefully tried to blame a junior office assistant for the "blunder" we now find out its a systemic problem within the organization based on the desire to save money, money that was cut from the budget by who? No less than Gordon Brown when he was Chancellor!

To my mind what is worrying is that a junior office assistant could actually download 25 million unencrypted detailed records onto to CD's in the first place, even if he did it under orders from above. Surely the national database should be more securely protected than that? It sounds as though it was as easy as downloading music from the web!

This whole government is a shambolic mess lurching from crisis to crisis. And there have been plenty more blunders along the way ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

11-22-2007, 11:12 AM	#8
ttoothh Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 263 Senior Member	After Darling carefully tried to blame a junior office assistant for the "blunder" we now find out its a systemic problem within the organization based on the desire to save money, money that was cut from the budget by who? No less than Gordon Brown when he was Chancellor! To my mind what is worrying is that a junior office assistant could actually download 25 million unencrypted detailed records onto to CD's in the first place, even if he did it under orders from above. Surely the national database should be more securely protected than that? It sounds as though it was as easy as downloading music from the web! This whole government is a shambolic mess lurching from crisis to crisis. And there have been plenty more blunders along the way ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770
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