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MoD loses hard drive holding military personnel data - UK

guardian.co.uk — Portable drive holding private details of 100,000 army, navy and RAF personnel belonged to MoD IT contractor, EDS

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  • stienster, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1hmmm.... sounds like either an anti-government dissident or something really sinister: reason to implement RFID chips internally. Both are plausible. I hope for the first.
  • censorshipwreck, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2I love how flippant everyone at the ministry seems to be about this:


    "A ministry spokesperson described it as a "potential" loss of data.

    It is understood the drive was not encrypted. "

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7662604.stm


    A lost drive with over 100,000 personnel files and it's not encrypted?
    Yikes.
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