PKC

[Owen Blacker]

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To be honest, I would say that your use of the word cretin is
somewhat conciliatory -- I would say that the recommendation and
implementation of an unencrypted network to carry data that are both
personally identifying and highly sensitive is nothing short of
professional [and possibly even criminal] negligence!   :o/


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hansen [mailto:davidh@spidacom.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 12:43 PM
> To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: PKC

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> The Zergo report fails to ask the most important questions of all 
> about the NHS network:
> 
> 1) Which cretins (a word I use deliberately) specified an
> unencrypted  network?
> 
> 2) Which "professionals" provided an unencrypted network? These 
> people have not carried out their activities in a  professional 
> manner and I would also describe them as cretins.
> 
> If anyone can provide some background to how this came about, or 
> point me at resources on the subject I would be grateful. I have
> read  some of Ross Anderson's things a while ago.
> 
> When incompetence of this magnitude exists in government and semi-
> government organisations, despite well educated arguments against, 
> one can only conclude that there is a deep flaw in the way
> government  works.

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