- May 7, 2009
- There are No Safe Secrets
- Posted by Strangely
- Freedom, Technology
- Tagged with: Australia, BBC, computer, creative, data, driving, Ebay, failure, future, Government, Hack, ID Card, licence, mi5, Missile, NATO, NHS, Office, personal data, Security, service, Sport, state, Tape, technology, terminator, Times, Wales, Wikipedia
A Secret Shared: – Is Not a Secret One Third of Second-Hand Hard Drives Contain Secrets This is the astonishing findings from research conducted by three Universities, from Wales, the US & Australia (see here). In an absolutely random sample of second-hand discs bought at computer fairs and places like eBay, 34% had secret, classified [...]
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- May 6, 2009
- ID Cards in Manchester: The Real Reason
- Posted by Strangely
- Freedom
- Tagged with: Archive, BBC, country, data, English, Gordon Brown, graph, ID Card, ID Cards, Jacqui Smith, Manchester, personal data, Politics, Telegraph, Trumpet, uk politics
Manchester launch for ID cards Given all that happened in UK politics since last …er…week, ….it’s clear the reason why Manchester has been chosen as Wacky Backy Jacqui Smith’s test site for ID Cards… …Two wimmin got up Brown’s nose this weekend… – one is always trumpeting her Manchester roots… – the other’s roots are [...]
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- September 7, 2008
- ID Cards get Worse and Worse and Worse
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: BBC, concept, country, data, data loss, Database, Death, disaster, failure, Freedom, Government, Hero, HOPE, ID Card, ID Cards, Incompetence, justice, military, mind, Mistake, personal data, rights, Security, service, Success, system, The Matrix, YouTube
Yet again, the proposed implementation of ID Cards and the security of anyone’s data within that system appears to be as mistaken a plan as anyone’s since the Charge of the Light Brigade. Despite the fact that the “Charge” was a military disaster (little known) succeeding against the odds in the objective of taking “The [...]
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- August 23, 2008
- Why Our Government and Agencies are So Bad at Security
- Posted by Strangely
- Freedom, Technology
- Tagged with: CCTV, computer, country, Crap, data, Database, email, Excel, forge, Government, ID Card, ID Cards, market, personal data, privacy, program, Security, Supermarket
…er. Well not really. Did you expect an answer! The fact is that I don’t know why so many individuals and groups of individuals are so inept and so incompetent, that it’s puts all our security into jeopardy. http://willnorris.com/2008/08/delta-and-the-security-question-anti-pattern This is a post from Will Norris, a computer programming guy, who points out in the [...]
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- June 18, 2008
- Maybe I’m Dead and This is All a Dream
- Posted by Strangely
- Freedom
- Tagged with: BBC, data, Dream, Europe, good, Government, Incompetence, Minister, personal data, politician, Politics, Roman, Romanian, sheep, silence, World
Three news items on the BBC today… Top UK politician loses confidential data aka Hazel loses it UK Prime Minister says that the government storing all our personal data is a “good thing” and will keep us safe. aka Gordon loses it A Romanian village elects a dead mayor. aka dead politician loses it – [...]
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- February 19, 2008
- DHL Core Values under threat!
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Environment
- Tagged with: atmosphere, bank, BBC, behaviour, benefit, book, business, citizen, CMS, comment, communication, Conditions, conflict, Contact, Copyright, corporate, Corruption, courage, Court, creativity, Criminal, currency, Dance, data, decor, defend, Design, Development, DHL, Dialog, Dialogue, disc, dodgy, Drug, Economic, entertainment, Environment, Europe, Excel, expert, Express, failure, financial, forge, friend, future, Germany, good, governance, Government, greed, Health, homepage, honour, Human, Information, International, investigation, ISO, Joke, knowledge, Lawsuit, legal, Locations, logic, Logistic, management, market, mind, MLM, money, monitor, nation, Nature, Office, Operating, pension, performance, personal data, petition, poison, Police, Processes, project, property, Protect, public, quality, race, record, Relation, Religion, Resource, responsibility, rights, safety, Security, service, Sex, Sound, state, Success, Sustain, sweets, technology, threat, Times, violence, Vision, Website, World
German police get a disc with heaps of dodgy dealings data on it. Zumwinkel, boss of Deutsche Post (and DHL), is first to be caught for non-payment of 1m Euros in tax and for syphoning the money off to a foreign bank.
His pay without bonuses, shares, pension supplements etc is well over this figure.
Why do they do it, people like this? It’s like stealing sweets from a sweet shop – when he could buy the sweet shop any time he likes!
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