The news that the whole country's personal data has gone missing is rather disturbing. It seems as if HM Revenue & Customs decided to send a couple of disks in the internal post to the National Audit Office and they ended up going walkies.
Which begs a couple of questions.
What kind of disks can hold the data of several million families? I presume we're not talking about three-and-a-half-inch floppies.
And what envelope did they go in? My bet is that it was one of those orange internal ones where you cross out your name and put the name of the new recipient in the box underneath. Someone scrawled NAO, but their handwriting wasn't too good.
Which begs a couple of questions.
What kind of disks can hold the data of several million families? I presume we're not talking about three-and-a-half-inch floppies.
And what envelope did they go in? My bet is that it was one of those orange internal ones where you cross out your name and put the name of the new recipient in the box underneath. Someone scrawled NAO, but their handwriting wasn't too good.
I'm still waiting for a headline saying slipped disks.
ReplyDeleteHow disappointing!