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    Iron Fist Senior Member Husar's Avatar
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    I don't really see the connection to ID cards, there's no bank information on my ID card and to give me benefits the government will still need to store my bank details even if I have no ID card.
    What I do find weird are:
    1. electronic ID cards
    2. that bank accounts can be charged without a proper PIN, TAN or written allowance from the account owner, makes you wonder why I, being the owner of the account have to type in all that stuff while criminals can just go and say "hey, give us money" and get it
    3. if 2 isn't as I said then why are people worried about losing money?
    4. 3 does not mean that I'd like criminals to have all my data
    5. I'm in the telephone book, who is not?


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    What I meant was, would you trust the same establishment with running an ID card scheme if they screw up so monumentally as to lose the records of 25m benefit claimants, while blatantly violating the Data Protection Act? You just don't violate it unless it's either deliberate, or you need shooting, and everyone who employed you the same. A real business would go under and be ripped apart, the managers and other high-up individuals finding their butts on a platter in front of a very serious, unimpressed judge (well...not in the UK, maybe a country with judges who aren't idiots who hand out lenient sentences to murderers, rapists, etc etc...and proceed to harp on about the Human Rights of the criminals).

    In days past, those guilty would have been lined up against the wall and shot at dawn by firing squad, or tortured in the most horific way and then executed...
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    5. I'm in the telephone book, who is not?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaidonni
    In days past, those guilty would have been lined up against the wall and shot at dawn by firing squad, or tortured in the most horific way and then executed...
    In days past you might have had a hard time finding 25 million people in Britain or trying to get a medium to hold all that data that didn't require several trucks to transport around.
    Maybe they'll soon save the data on disks that are so small they're invisible that will certainly help since the bad guys won't even see it lying around.

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    Me, for one...
    I knew there would be at least one, I have a few more suspects but in the end it's a matter of preference, if you hate the bureaucracy and the state and some companies having your data for this and that, there are always those good old ways of handling government and stuff as practised in certain third world countries where noone really cares whether or not you exist, much less what you bank data is.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Husar
    I don't really see the connection to ID cards, there's no bank information on my ID card and to give me benefits the government will still need to store my bank details even if I have no ID card.
    What I do find weird are:
    1. electronic ID cards
    2. that bank accounts can be charged without a proper PIN, TAN or written allowance from the account owner, makes you wonder why I, being the owner of the account have to type in all that stuff while criminals can just go and say "hey, give us money" and get it
    3. if 2 isn't as I said then why are people worried about losing money?
    4. 3 does not mean that I'd like criminals to have all my data
    5. I'm in the telephone book, who is not?
    2- That is only possible with a credit card......just don´t get one....I do fine with just an charge card.
    5- I´m not...my phone number is registered as confidential.
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    Rule of Blame:
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    Rule of Bureaucracy:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
    Rule of Blame:
    Never assign maliciousness where stupidity will do.

    Rule of Bureaucracy:
    Never hire a burecrat who isn't stupid.
    Unfortunately stupidity is dangerous...and very much exploitable by malice.

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    Sounds like a problem with the civil service and at the junior end of the scale.
    Nope http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2937217.ece

    REVENUE officials have been routinely posting out people’s confidential data in bulk and without proper security, a Sunday Times investigation has found. It undermines Gordon Brown’s claim that the loss of 25m child benefit records was the fault of a lone junior official.

    The prime minister last week blamed the junior civil servant for the loss of two computer discs containing the personal and financial details of the claimants. He said they had been posted out in a clear breach of rules that all sensitive data in transit should be encrypted.

    Revenue officials have admitted that similar personal data for hundreds of thousands of people have routinely been put on CD and sent by post without encryption. The practice has now been quietly stopped.
    As for why this is Brown's fault, that would be merging the depts and demanding big cost savings. According to the media the reason the entite database was sent, when the NAO had only asked for NI numbers, was that it would have been too expensive to strip out the rest of the data.

    Sounds to me like government underresourcing made the debacle possible, at a minimum.

    A real business would go under and be ripped apart
    This is what is twisting my nipples. If I lost the data of all of my clients, my firm would go bust. No question. Just another instance of how its one rule fopr those of us that actually make UK PLCs money, and another rule for the bloated parasites who feed on it.
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    This is a governmental failure, did anyone ever buy that crap Brown sold us about a 23 yr old junior being the guy responsible And now it has been proved that more senior officials were involved, great to see Browns new open, cross party, honest politics are in full swing. Brown and Blair invented this New Labour experiment between them, why does anybody think anything is going to change just because 50% of the crooks have gone to pasture?
    I'm one of the few people in this country that can be proud to say that i was never fooled and never voted for them.
    Not much consolation on a day to day basis. I still pay their stealth taxes, live under their fascism and listen to their spin, but at least I'm not responsible.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slug For A Butt
    I'm one of the few people in this country that can be proud to say that i was never fooled and never voted for them.
    Well they had me hook line and sinker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slug For A Butt
    I'm one of the few people in this country that can be proud to say that i was never fooled and never voted for them.
    They had me in 97 when I wanted the other crooks out, but I believed the whole 'Things Can Only Get Better' mantra. In recent years I've felt like sending back the TCOGB video the Labour Party sent me with a note attached asking 'WTF happened?'

    This is just another event to add to all the other examples of startling incompetence we've seen over the last 10 sorry years. *sigh*

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slug For A Butt
    This is a governmental failure, did anyone ever buy that crap Brown sold us about a 23 yr old junior being the guy responsible.
    Ministers are responsible. That is the whole point of a democracy. You can kick hold them responsible and kick them out.

    If a 23 yr old junior manages to wreak this much havoc, the people who entrusted a 23 yr old junior with the power to do so are responsible.

    I think InsaneApache's description in his opening post about the physical hobbies of the cabinet members involved is correct.
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