The Great Zero Challenge

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Ian Batten wrote:
>>
>> For HMG use only wiping systems listed at the link below should be 
>> used, which have been tested to be suitable:
> 
> 
> I think that at the moment HMG might prefer to give its own staff advice 
> on beams, prior to giving the rest of us advice on motes.  We're soon 
> going to reach a point where you're unusual _not_ to have had your data 
> lost by the government.

AFAICT HMG staff almost never lose data. Its nearly always the 
contractors or consultants or whoever that they are forced to 
outsource to (and have been forced to outsource to for about 
thirty years) because the government doesn't believe that its 
own employees are as competent as 23-year-old recent economics 
graduates who did a six week course in Business Analysis and 
want to grow up to be Management Consultants