Insecurity of Chip and PIN - on Newsnight tonight

[Ian Batten]

On 27 Feb 08, at 1118, David Hansen wrote:

> On 27 Feb 2008 at 11:02, Ian Batten wrote:
>
>> I didn't realise that Susan Watts worked for Computer Weekly at one
>> stage.  Plus Physics at Imperial and it's no wonder he's usually
>> pretty smart about IT issues.
>
> She seems fairly good at "technical" issues. However, she seems to  
> have
> failed to spot that the sexing up of dossiers by Mr Liar's lot was an
> excellent story which deserved to be made public and thus one can
> question her journalistic skills.

Or merely comment that it's so far outside her remit and experience  
as to be a foreign territory.  I wouldn't blame Alan Hansen for that  
mistake, and I don't think that impacts on his knowledge of the role  
of the sweeper in the modern defensive system.

ian