Jacqui Smith’s startling insight into how the details of 84,000 prisoners managed to wind up on a memory stick which promptly went missing:
“This was data that was being held in a secure form, but was downloaded onto a memory stick by an external contractor,” she said.
“It runs against the rules set down both for the holding of government data and set down by the external contractor and certainly set down in the contract that we had with the external contractor.”
Well, duh.
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You’ve got to marvel at how these bozos get out of the house in the morning. Based on this statement I can only assume that Jacqui Smith doesn’t actually walk around with her door keys on her, but instead keeps them under a potted plant by the door. To avoid being burgled she has figured out the genius ruse of writing personally to her neighbours and insisting that they don’t break in without her permission.
The point, Smith, is that if it is possible for a private contractor to leave the office with sensitive data on a flashdrive, your system isn’t fucking secure. Almost a year after the Customs and Excise debacle and you still haven’t figured that one out. And now you want to put the exact same fuckwits in charge of a national identity database??!?!?!?
Give. Me. Strength.
Hear hear.
Especially the ‘fuckwits’ parts.
Thing that make’s this hillarious is she obviously believes that data “held securely” is of no danger to those who’s information is held in the wrong hands. Hence her absolutely ridiculous “unhackable” statement about the ID database.