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Prison data lost



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Published Date: 07 September 2008
JUSTICE Secretary Jack Straw yesterday ordered an inquiry after a computer hard-drive containing the personal details of 5,000 prison officers in England and Wales went missing.
The loss of the data by private computing firm EDS was reported to the Prison Service in July, but it was not until yesterday that Straw was informed of the problem.

It was reported the hard-drive contains names, dates of birth, National Insurance numbers and Prison Service employee numbers.





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  • Last Updated: 06 September 2008 11:48 PM
  • Source: Scotland On Sunday
  • Location: Scotland
 
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Charles Linskaill,

Edinburgh 07/09/2008 01:47:44

Data loss in the year 2008, has become a joke, and common place,...

'Common Place' like 'Brushing your teeth in the morning'

A Joke, when your,..'Gnashes Fall Out'! :)
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Proximaking,

Dundee 07/09/2008 11:26:34
More information is available at a few keystrokes than ever before. Another non-story. There are numerous stories of people seeing "repeat" performances of Roman soldiers walking along old Roman roads, down sewers built on old Roman roads etc suggesting that everything that has ever been done is recorded in everything around us as on a DVD. If a few years ago we had given the Nazis a DVD covering all the details of the Allies equipment, plans etc on a daily basis what could they have done with it? Nothing because they didn't have a DVD player to play it back, they wouldn't have had a clue what they were looking at except a shiny disc with a hole in the middle. The point is we have to get used to information leaking as we live in an information world quite literally as Physics has now shown us we live in a conceptual electro-magnetic-spin reality where everyhing is conserved to minimise the information content of the whole. I really wish "The Scotsman" would keep up with the big picture and not concentrate on the minutiae of prison officers details going missing. Who will need prisons or prison officers when everything we have done in the past can be seen? Technology has always shown us that what happens only under very special conditions in Nature today can be called up at will using correctly designed machines tomorrow. In such a world as this one actually is who but a lunatic would commit a crime even before those machines came on line? lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
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Matt there,

somewhere 07/09/2008 15:19:01
Proximaking, you really don't see the problem there?

The details of every prison officer in the country goes missing. Possibly falling into the hands of criminals.

See a potential for problems, there, Proximaking?

Criminals having access to personal details of prison officers.


 

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