Data Handling Procedures in Government: Interim Progress Report

[David Hansen]

On 18 Jan 2008 at 22:22, Ian Batten wrote:

> Today is MoD, plus a load of DWP paper on a roundabout near Exeter  
> (and the guy who found them is presumably one of the large band of ex- 
> PoWs who settled in the area after the war, to judge from his name and  
> his mixed German/Exeter accent: perhaps, ob.crypto, he used an Enigma  
> machine).  I think we can assume that ID cards are dead.

I doubt it. The Home Office has fought for decades to have "identity" 
cards re-introduced, since they were discontinued I believe. Little 
"minor difficulties" like this are not going to deter them. The current 
Home Secretary is such a pigmy that she can't even decide which shoes 
to wear without checking with Mr Prudent. There seems little chance 
that the officials will be brought under control by her.

Remember that it is the Home Office that has been largely responsible 
for data being grabbed by banks, solicitors and the like and assembled 
into packages ideal for "identity theft". The claimed reason for this 
disastrous policy is to prevent "identity theft", which just goes to 
show, along with things like RIP, that the Home Office know bugger all 
about how to control information.



-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents 
me   
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54