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| UK loses sensitive defence hard drive |
| 2008-10-10 |
| The British defence ministry has admitted that a computer hard drive, containing the names and personal details of half the people serving in the country's armed forces, has disappeared. The hard drive belonged to a contractor and was used by the firm to test computer equipment. Defence officials have only just made the discovery and say the data could have disappeared weeks ago. The incident is the latest in a series of scandals concerning confidential government documents, which have been lost or misplaced in recent years. |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #3 (who can be arbitraruily long). :) You has dawg, child, maiden name or husband named arbitraruily long? B |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-10-10 19:16 |
| #2 Sadly, a public school education is no substitute for, or guarantee of, native intelligence. QED. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-10-10 12:09 |
| #1 On Linux there is native support for encrypted filesytstems in other words: if someone steals the disk and insertas it into a systems whre he is admoinstrator he will get zero information of it unless he knows the pass phrase (who can be arbitraruily long). I know there is user space support for the same in Windows. For reasons I will noit discuss this is not as goodd as Linux kernel sapce solution but it is still wmuch<.b> better than strolling around with laptops containing unencrypted information. I were Britain's defence minister there would be a lot of ministry's IT personel either performing sepuku or volunteeering for Afgahanistan. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-10-10 07:28 |