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UK Banks Dump Credentials in Bin Bags
Plutonite writes "BBC news is reporting that several UK banks face 'unlimited fines' for careless handling of sensitive client information. This apparently came after investigators found account details while rummaging through the trash outside the banks involved. In this age of online banking and related security problems, and in light of this scandal, where can we expect to find the greatest threat of ID theft?"
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They should not have dumped the files in /usr/bin, but in /dev/null.
Of course.
If you are digging around in the banks garbage, you must be a terrorist
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Conspiracy theory: the government told them to do it in order to increase identity theft, thus hoping that the public will become more accepting of the national identity register, and more willing to carry biometric ID cards.
Which would imply the govenment shows
1) Joined up thinking
2) Competence
That's some whacko theory you've got there