impressive health dataloss

[Michael Simpson]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/15/eight_million_health_records/

 Even in these post-sony days 8+million health records ("anonymised"
but still containing age and postcode) going missing is quite
staggering.
 Someone needs to tell DoH that simple putting a password on a laptop
without whole disk encryption is not a barrier to using rainbow tables
to ascertain said password yet it is still trooped out as the first
line of the "it will be ok" statement from the guilty.

mike