Comments on: Missing disks and encryption http://www.leyton.org/diary/2007/11/20/missing-disks-and-encryption/ Thoughts. Comment. Opinion. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:56:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Matt http://www.leyton.org/diary/2007/11/20/missing-disks-and-encryption/#comment-21676 Matt Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:18:37 +0000 http://www.leyton.org/diary/2007/11/20/missing-disks-and-encryption/#comment-21676 <p>On Newsnight that night there was a Cambridge information security expert (forget his name) who made an amusing dismissal about ID cards while discussing the data loss:</p> <p>Paxman: ...ID cards another matter altogether, much safer expert: ID cards don't really have anything to do with security, they are a political thing</p> On Newsnight that night there was a Cambridge information security expert (forget his name) who made an amusing dismissal about ID cards while discussing the data loss:

Paxman: …ID cards another matter altogether, much safer
expert: ID cards don’t really have anything to do with security, they are a political thing

]]> By: Scottish Roundup » Blog Archive » A ‘Lost in the Post’ Post http://www.leyton.org/diary/2007/11/20/missing-disks-and-encryption/#comment-21643 Scottish Roundup » Blog Archive » A ‘Lost in the Post’ Post Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:29:04 +0000 http://www.leyton.org/diary/2007/11/20/missing-disks-and-encryption/#comment-21643 <p>[...] Government’s competence with IT naturally gets called into question: Angus Nicolson and Robert Sharp are stunned that these data can be put on a CD and sent in the internal mail when there is the [...]</p> [...] Government’s competence with IT naturally gets called into question: Angus Nicolson and Robert Sharp are stunned that these data can be put on a CD and sent in the internal mail when there is the [...]

]]> By: mrs k http://www.leyton.org/diary/2007/11/20/missing-disks-and-encryption/#comment-21589 mrs k Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:38:53 +0000 http://www.leyton.org/diary/2007/11/20/missing-disks-and-encryption/#comment-21589 <p>What I do not understand is how the computer experts that put the system in do not explain it in words of one syllable. They must know their own data is going to be stored in the systems they are installing. I know that if I was putting a system in that my data was going to be eventually stored in I would make b****y sure that everybody understood it and that an ordinary 'joe' could not interfer with it.</p> <p>Or I am being naive?</p> What I do not understand is how the computer experts that put the system in do not explain it in words of one syllable. They must know their own data is going to be stored in the systems they are installing. I know that if I was putting a system in that my data was going to be eventually stored in I would make b****y sure that everybody understood it and that an ordinary ‘joe’ could not interfer with it.

Or I am being naive?

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