Re: (Yet) another guvmint data cockup

Richard Bos wrote:

More importantly, what the blazes are they (or anyone else, for that
matter) doing sending _unencrypted_ CDs containing sensitive data
anywhere? Naturally they have to send their data, and naturally in some
cases doing so on a CD or USB stick is the most efficient way. But if
you let privacy-breaking data leave your hands, you encrypt it, damn it!

Weasel words from Standard Life, who were the (non) recipients.
"The data was encoded so it couldn't be easily read", in an interview on the radio yesterday. They also said they had since successfully received other data by courier carried CD-ROM.
So that's alright then:-/

HMRC quoted "security" as the reason they couldn't state whether or not the data had been encrypted. Probably used "password" as the encryption key...

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Tciao for Now!

John.
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