Good to see they learn from mistakes

[TheFaQQer]

This was in today's Technology Grauniad:

The sound of two dropped CDs is still echoing around the government's £14bn-a-year IT programme. And the effects are already being felt: last week the NHS IT agency Connecting for Health warned hospitals not to post discs containing unencrypted personal data to the central NHS Tracing Service, run by a private contractor in the Midlands. Media not meeting security standards "will be destroyed upon receipt", it warned.

So, they've at least learnt from the CDs getting lost in the post - if they still send the stuff in an insecure way, they will destroy it when it gets there!

Linky.

"It became expected practice to pitch prices for initially completed tranches of work relatively low, in the confident expectation that later revisions and extensions would create negotiated contracts of between four and six times the initial competed contract price." It's only a short step from there to demanding £5,000 to "strip" sensitive personal information from the child benefit data - a task that, with a properly designed database, would take no extra effort. That HMRC is charged so much extra for elementary tweaks shows how weak the government's grasp of its own IT has become.

[threaded]

Typical Grauniad disinformation, wasn't £5000, was £37850. I know it's only 32k out, but all us old Speccy fans know 32k can be felt.

Also note how the socialist whisperers are saying we need to join all these databases up, we need these fsckin ID cards, and using this monstrous clusterfsck at the HMRC as an example of why!

Stabbin's too good for them. Heads on spikes.

Really beginning to wonder if we're fighting the wrong people in this 'War on whatever-is-todays-bogeyman'.

[Churchill]

Typical Grauniad disinformation, wasn't £5000, was £37850. I know it's only 32k out, but all us old Speccy fans know 32k can be felt.

Also note how the socialist whisperers are saying we need to join all these databases up, we need these fsckin ID cards, and using this monstrous clusterfsck at the HMRC as an example of why!

Stabbin's too good for them. Heads on spikes.

Really beginning to wonder if we're fighting the wrong people in this 'War on whatever-is-todays-bogeyman'.

Oh tulip! I'm finding myself agreeing with Threaded. Folks, if you see me reaching for the buffet, shoot me!