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Originally Posted by Tarquin L-Smythe
“Personal Internet Securityâ€Â
A lot to read in the report lots of posturing and promises,but yet again the emphasis is set on financial loss and child abuse,whilst the aforementioned subjects are in no way trivial I read very little about data harvesting which surely is the root of all evils,lots of talk of "wake up calls" on data loss but little about data theft,liked the bit about the Govt running an public information scheme to help everyone understand the implications of good security as long as it goes further than misplacing your disk's or drives or getting your laptop pinched .Yes a lot of good promises but nothing this year,surely on a financial note tighter security would mean less financial loss so more financial input from the private sector for funding would seem a sensible place to start.Nice to see that the ineffectualness of the ICO and Police was highlighted. But its all talk and conjecture at this moment they need a push to commit themselves but I fear fighting the next election is uppermost in all govt parties in and out of office.All in all a good read needs to be thoroughly dissected I am sure we will do exactly that. 
I bid you good night . Tarquin
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Good night, and good morning. Another nice quote here from the same report:
http://www.publications.parliament.u...ch/131/131.pdf
Q31 Earl of Erroll: A quick rider before I start. The
first thing I was going to say was that I did not feel
there was disrespect in the response from the
Government at all. I rather felt that there were
probably problems of budget and a feeling of how
were you going to get it out of the Treasury, therefore
the usual thing was to say “Well, let’s talk about it a
bitmore and then hope that something appears in the
next budget round†or something like that, which
was disappointing.
I think what the Earl of Northesk
was asking was slightly different from what I am
about to ask which was that he was thinking about
how this was classified and whether Phorm is a crime
or is not. There are rules that would suggest that it is
but no government department wants to pick it up
and say that it is. Everyone wants to shift the buck