Subject: Idiots: U.K. reports new data loss for 100,000 military staff Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:24 am
LONDON: A computer disk that reportedly carries personal details on about 100,000 serving British military personnel is missing, the Defense Ministry said Friday.
The military confirmed a report in The Sun newspaper that the contractor EDS had lost track of a portable hard drive, but said that it could not comment on the claim that the disk contained names, addresses, passport numbers and driver's license information of service personnel along with data on 600,000 potential recruits.
"We don't know what's on it, and we don't even know if there's anything on it," a defense spokesman said on condition of anonymity, in line with military policy.
A government-mandated data security review was unable to account for the disk, according to EDS U.K., the British subsidiary of EDS, which is based in Plano, Texas. It said the disk was being stored at its secure facility in Hook, a town about 45 miles, or 70 kilometers, west of London when it disappeared.
EDS would not say whether the disk was encrypted.
The military said it was investigating the incident, which it said became known earlier this week.
The loss is one in a series of information breaches at the ministry. Last month it said a disk carrying sensitive personnel information was stolen from a military base. Earlier this year, the military said a laptop computer with details of 600,000 new and prospective recruits was stolen.
The British government has struggled to get a handle on data losses even as it rolls out an ambitious national identification card program. The loss last year of computer disks containing information - including banking records - on nearly half the British population caught international attention. A steady stream of data blunders since then has kept the spotlight on the way the government handles its citizens' information.
Civil libertarians and opposition politicians have seized on the losses to argue against further government data-gathering. The Conservative lawmaker Nigel Evans said the news would be "music to the ears of fraudsters everywhere," noting the irony of the loss being announced during the National Identity Fraud Prevention Week, an awareness drive partly sponsored by the government.
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Subject: Re: Idiots: U.K. reports new data loss for 100,000 military staff Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:39 am
Gosh, rather careless. Those chaps had better buck up their ideas. _________________ Anarcho Capitalists Retail , OZschwitz Downunder BoutiqueAnarcho-Capitalists,AnCaps Forum,Anti-State,Anti-Statist,Inalienable Rights Defenders,Non-Aggression Principle,Non-Initiation of Force Principle,Rothbardians,Anarchist,Capitalist,objectivism,Ayn Rand,Anarcho-Capitalism,Anarcho-Capitalist,politics,libertarianism,Ancap Forum,Anarchist Forum,Vulgar Libertarians,Hippies of The Right,Forum for Anarcho-Capitalist,Forum for Anarcho-Capitalists,Forum for AnCap,Forum for AnCaps,Libertarian,Anarcho-Objectivist,Freedom, Laissez Faire, Free Trade, Black Market, Randroid, Randroids, Rothbardian, AynArchist, Anarcho-Capitalist Forum, Anarchism, Anarchy, Free Market Anarchism, Free Market Anarchy, Market Anarchy
Subject: Re: Idiots: U.K. reports new data loss for 100,000 military staff Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:47 am
So do you think we should return 'their' computer disk, or not..?
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Subject: Re: Idiots: U.K. reports new data loss for 100,000 military staff Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:53 am
I wonder what they would be willing to pay to recover it? _________________ Anarcho Capitalists Retail , OZschwitz Downunder BoutiqueAnarcho-Capitalists,AnCaps Forum,Anti-State,Anti-Statist,Inalienable Rights Defenders,Non-Aggression Principle,Non-Initiation of Force Principle,Rothbardians,Anarchist,Capitalist,objectivism,Ayn Rand,Anarcho-Capitalism,Anarcho-Capitalist,politics,libertarianism,Ancap Forum,Anarchist Forum,Vulgar Libertarians,Hippies of The Right,Forum for Anarcho-Capitalist,Forum for Anarcho-Capitalists,Forum for AnCap,Forum for AnCaps,Libertarian,Anarcho-Objectivist,Freedom, Laissez Faire, Free Trade, Black Market, Randroid, Randroids, Rothbardian, AynArchist, Anarcho-Capitalist Forum, Anarchism, Anarchy, Free Market Anarchism, Free Market Anarchy, Market Anarchy
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Subject: Re: Idiots: U.K. reports new data loss for 100,000 military staff
Idiots: U.K. reports new data loss for 100,000 military staff
Subject: Idiots: U.K. reports new data loss for 100,000 military staff 
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