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This time its the MOD who have lost 600,000 people's details who have expressed an interest to join or are already inthe Navy, RAF, Marines. I'd hate for some nutter to have this information, names and addresses of forces personel could be very dangerous in the wrong hands.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7197045.stm

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The British Army has 135,000 people in it, so who the hell are the rest (the RAF and Navy are both smaller)? Potential recruits, but even so that's a hell of a lot of people they're being cavalier with.

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Why don't these people use hard drive encryption, like SafeGuard?

At Barclays Capital & Wealth, this was standard on laptops.

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I think most organisations are now pushing for laptop drive encryption I know we do, and as a result of the Nationwide fiasco had to check all our laptops to ensure that we had it installed and operating correctly. Major piece of work.

You can imagine someone in the saying we're OK, we're the MOD and we'll prosecute anyone who steals from us. There should be some kinda law that states any mobile device with data should be secured.

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Saw another one today too:

Personal data found on roundabout

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There was one the other day too. NHS patient files from Whipps Cross (my local), Barts and others were found blowing around a street. The hospital use a 3rd party data destruction company. Apparently lots of papers blow out of the trucks on a regular basis as they aren't covered.

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Why don't these people wake up and stop leaving their laptops in cars overnight - I mean the whole point of a laptop is that you can carry it with you and car parks in Birmingham aren't exactly renowned for secure storage are they...

Given all the coverage of these events since the CB discs were lost, the truly remarkable thing is that those being entrusted with this sort of sensitive data are still so blase about it all. Institutionalised ineptitude!

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Our local neighbour hood watch warns us that "people" watch local hotel car parks for residents arriving (usually business types) take the laptop bag out of the back/front and place it in boot, remove the suitcase and go check in for the night. Few hours later car is broken into and guess what gets stolen.

We get the same message about parks - Women and handbags, they put them in the boot and the same happens.

If you do this, do it BEFORE you get to the place you're going to.

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Or ostentatiously remove a large backpack filled with horse manure from the back seat and put it in the boot.

This works better if you have a car like mine that already smells of horse manure.

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See, they need to be giving staff higher spec laptops, that way, they'll be encouraged to take them inside to play games or watch DVD's rather than "Oh god it's a heavy bag, sod it I'll leave it in the car"

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This is common practice in NHS Trusts :dozey:

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i see it on a regular basis where i live,laptops and mobiles sitting in full view just begging to be swiped,the owners imo are lazy sods.:mad:

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Not BS then :D

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Unfortunately there is no patch for human stupidity.

MOD laptops are routinely encrypted, even where they are carrying low-level information, I can't understand why this one wouldn't have been.

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...then take it to Westminster and fling it at the fan in Gordon Brown's office...