11-23-2007, 01:30 PM
Ah. HMRC contracts EDS, an IT firm, who handle such data transactions.
Bonkers. Ten times the cost over time of employing an IT person within HMRC (hence the filtering wasn't done), and we can only look forward to more foul-ups like this, no doubt. It would have taken an internal IT bod ten minutes to write a script that would have filtered the data, and the script could be used ad infinitum for other similar tasks, and they'd have encrypted the data for free.
"For want of a shoe a horse was lost." :roll:
It also turns out that lawyers regularly handling HMRC fraud cases are regularly sent discs.... wait for it.... with the passwords in the same envelope on a piece of paper! :lol:
Bonkers. Ten times the cost over time of employing an IT person within HMRC (hence the filtering wasn't done), and we can only look forward to more foul-ups like this, no doubt. It would have taken an internal IT bod ten minutes to write a script that would have filtered the data, and the script could be used ad infinitum for other similar tasks, and they'd have encrypted the data for free.
"For want of a shoe a horse was lost." :roll:
It also turns out that lawyers regularly handling HMRC fraud cases are regularly sent discs.... wait for it.... with the passwords in the same envelope on a piece of paper! :lol:
TARBICvS/Jim Bowers
A A A DESEDO DESEDO!
A A A DESEDO DESEDO!
