In message , Roland Perry
writes
In message 4753016e@qaanaaq, at 19:03:10 on Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Andy
Hall remarked:
So where's *your* line between the many failings a day that don't
matter, and the ones that do?

All failings matter - it's a question of the impact, the potential
impact, whether it should have happened and steps taken afterwards to
correct it.

I repeat:

So where's *your* line between the many failings a day that don't
matter, and the ones that do?

In respect of the lost discs, the impact and potential impact are
enormous. Anybody with details on them would be foolish not to change
all bank account and other details.

Rubbish, all the data on them is public information. It's a bit sad
that they've lost a whole lot of it, but nothing important for a
general "identity theft" scenario. The actual (and not much mentioned)
threat is that anyone with children is on the database, including some
famous people who try quite hard to disguise their addresses.


No, what's really important is that it happened, that there were not the
mechanisms in place to prevent it from happening, and that it happened
time and time again

the data (or rather the sheer quantity of it) is what made people take
note, and realise the potential


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geoff