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25 Million personal records lost by the government

20 Tuesday Nov 2007

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The Child Benefit Agency – the UK organization for paying child benefit has managed to loss a couple of CDs containing enough information for various forms of credit and identity fraud to be committed.  The BBC NEWS cover the story in more depth.

This in my mind is an illustration of why national Id cards are so dangerously wrong.  One of the goals of the Id card is to make it easier to manage people’s Ids.  So if the Id data went missing and people rely and trust an Id card as they meant to be ‘safe and secure’ there is huge exposure to fraud and worse.

I’m sure that this story will run for sometime and we will see people blaming the IT, although tragically the problem is actually people, and organizational culture.

 

del.icio.us tags: Fraud, Id, personal records, security, IT

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Stephen Fry – Getting Overheated

20 Tuesday Nov 2007

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The brilliantly funny and hugely intelligent Stephen Fry has started to publish a blog (http://stephenfry.com/blog/).  Like Stephen’s other work it is both very observant and literate at a level that makes me feel like a monkey bashing a keyboard.

Stephen’s latest blog (Getting Overheated) entry looks at recent event that occurred whilst filming in America, and from that to the arguments for and against global warming. It is brilliantly reduced to a single point – regardless of which side you fall, are you prepared to gamble the current global climate and the possible risks of climate change to be able to say – told you so? If the climate change predicators are wrong, well egg on face, and we may have made our fossil fuels last a bit longer. If they’re right, well we’re all still here along with hopefully a few other species as well.

 

del.icio.us tags: Stephen Fry, Blog, Global Warming, humour

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