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British MoD Stunned By Massive Data Loss

Posted by timothy on from the austin-powers-meets-the-peter-principle dept.

Master of Transhuman writes "Seems like nobody can keep their data under wraps these days. On the heels of the World Bank piece about massive penetrations of their servers, the British Ministry of Defense has lost a hard drive with the personal details of 100,000 serving personnel in the British armed forces, and perhaps another 600,000 applicants. This comes on the heels of the MoD losing 658 of its laptops over the past four years and 26 flash drives holding confidential information. Apparently the MoD outsources this stuff to EDS, which is under fire for not being able to confirm that the data was or was not encrypted."

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  1. I can! by matt4077 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can confirm that the data was or was not encrypted.

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    Fleur de Sel
  2. this is the reason why... by MoFoQ · · Score: 3, Funny

    this is the reason why the brits have to spy more....'cuz it's about quantity.....if u have more data coming in.....than that is going out (aka losing)...then u'r golden.

    (I don't think it's a coincidence that this was posted after the bit about the brits needing to spy more)

  3. Re:Combine this with the immediately preceding sto by houghi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Information wants to be free.

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    Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
  4. Re:Hardly 3 hours by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Funny

    or they're just moving to a more distributed data system, they want to spy on you so they can see the data you now hold. Its like a bittorrent data-storage solution, all these 'lost' laptops and pendrives is a secret mechanism of distributing the data in the most widely and random way - thus adding to the security of the overall system, as no-one else knows where its ended up.

    See, its simple really :-)