MTAS and other NHS websites

[ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk]

Quoting Matthew Byng-Maddick <ukcrypto@lists.colondot.net>:

>> This was really only a minor breach of security, an act of stupidity,
>> although maybe symptomatic of a general attitude.
>
> Please feel free to tell that to someone whose sexual orientation (not
> well-known to colleagues) had their data revealed to Channel 4 News. I'm
> sure they'll agree with you that it was only a "minor breach of security".
>
> The question in my mind is now, "if this is only a minor breach of securit=
y
> what do you class as a major breach?".
>

Mathew

Obviously this is more than a minor breach of security, and I'm not =20
trying to underplay the importance of this to anyone whose personal =20
data was made public.
The point that I was trying to make, though, is that this was a =20
one-off goof. A mistake like this would not in itself have led to the =20
site being off line for 10 days. Something more sinister mus be going =20
on as well.



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