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Originally Posted by anna
unbelivable... and if this was an ordinary company i wonder how many times they would be in court over this??
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The people that lost the HMRC details were a private company, but they were deemed not to be liable.
My understanding of the MOD laptop case, was that the laptop was stolen. Yes their IT policy could of been better, but again, their policy is not the fault in the system, it's the physical security for the laptop itself (are we to propose that all laptops, regardless of content, are kept 100% secure at all times - just to be sure we're OK?).
I've just had a quick look around the internet, and I find that in 2005 EDS won a contract to run the Ministry of Defence Defence Information Infrastructure. So I would assume that EDS had something to do with the laptop in question. I'm not sure if they dealt with the data storage though, and it would be silly of me to accuse them of that.
The HMRC data that was lost recently however, was enroute from an EDS office. I also know that EDS deal with HMPS IT systems and data storage. Again, I feel the need to re-iterate the point that during investigations, no fault has been found with EDS procedures.
Anna, EDS is a private limited company, part of the Atlas consortium.
I can't help but feel that these published security lapses are just a convienent slight of hand though. Give people bad news in order to hide terrible news. There is a commonality in them, but no-one is really to blame, and it gives the public at large something to complain about - let's face it, as a nation, it's something we're good at.
Where has all that debate about WOMD gone? Or the one about Iraq and soldiers pulling out? Hmm.