Darling is to make an announcement at 3.30 - bit of a problem?

[realityhack]

Anyone else think that it's ever so slightly odd to be sending a data disk via snailmail?

They only sent it that way because they couldn't work out how to attach it to an email.

[DaveB]

They only sent it that way because they couldn't work out how to attach it to an email.

Nah, it was over the size limit for attachments and they didnt know how to use zip

[wendigo100]

They only sent it that way because they couldn't work out how to attach it to an email.

True. Walking around HMG offices as recently as 2005 you could still see all kinds of disc bric-a-brac sellotaped to CRT screens.

[wendigo100]

Nah, it was over the size limit for attachments and they didnt know how to use zip

That always made me laugh when I was working there.

They'd set a low limit, thinking what good, secure boys they were being, without taking into account the size of files being sent as part of normal business.

[AtW]

Why data wasn't encrypted?

[threaded]

Why data wasn't encrypted?

Funny you've just posted that. I've just heard that this 'password protection' is bollox. There is no protection. Essentially comma separated values, CR for end of record.

And it's an awful lot more than 15m, more like 27-35m, possibly everyone who gets child benefit paid to them, plus a good few who don't, but are for some obscure reason on that system as well.

[realityhack]

Funny you've just posted that. I've just heard that this 'password protection' is bollox. There is no protection. Essentially comma separated values, CR for end of record.

And it's an awful lot more than 15m, more like 27-35m, possibly everyone who gets child benefit paid to them, plus a good few who don't, but are for some obscure reason on that system as well.

Source?

[AtW]

Source?

The source!

[Sockpuppet]

Maybe its a ruse and Darling took out the extra insurance on the package, for upto £24 billion compensation to fund his other **** up.

[threaded]

Source?

I've more sauce: why don't they delete records when they are no longer required? Fancy keeping details of benefits paid to children that are getting on for over 40 years old now...