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Quote:Is the British government in that market too? As a certain satirical journal used to say,
There was an interesting term used in one of the now infamous emails which hasn't at all been picked up on by anyone it seems. When referring to the cost of stripping out the data the National Audit Office didn't need, the HMRC minion (who was wrongly fingered) said it would cost too much, and referred to HMRC not as 'the Department', but as "the
business".
I think it's clear how our
civil service is being made to view itself.
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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:
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