Darling should keep his job.

I think he probably should stay in, I just don't think he will.

Brown seems to be a typical politician in that he responds in a predictable way (firing people when shit fucks up).

I've never really understood the whole 'the person in charge should resign' line (thinking more about Gray than Darling here). I'd be more impressed if they took a substantial pay cut, and then stuck around and fixed whatever caused the problem in the first place. To me, that demonstrates more repentance and responsibility than just walking away from the situation (and, in all likelihood, into another high-paying position somewhere else in a year or so).

Anyway, I think it was all worth it for this excellent example of advertisement positioning.

This is exactly why we can't trust any government with an identity card scheme.

I wish they'd reveal details of how the data was encrypted. That'd either terrify me or put my mind at rest.

"Officials confirmed that the disks were protected with a password and encrypted using ROT13, a highly secure method for ensuring the information could not be read without knowing the password"

What's the betting that the password was "password"?

I wish they'd reveal details of how the data was encrypted. That'd either terrify me or put my mind at rest.

I don't think they will... I actually hope they'll recover the discs. I'm changing all my bank accounts anyway.

A colleague mentioned that TNT is owned by a Dutch company. You and your kids are all going to be spammed by drugs and pr0n companies.

I've never really understood the whole 'the person in charge should resign' line (thinking more about Gray than Darling here). I'd be more impressed if they took a substantial pay cut, and then stuck around and fixed whatever caused the problem in the first place. To me, that demonstrates more repentance and responsibility than just walking away from the situation (and, in all likelihood, into another high-paying position somewhere else in a year or so).

I love this idea.

It's weird that this is a story without the disks having actually reached the wrong hands. The fact these databases exist at all is as big a "risk" as there being a CD copy of it somewhere.

The Mirror has "25m victims" next to a great big picture of Darling, as does the FT. So he's fucked.

ITSafe is the government's official IT Security initiative for people - it's something they set up a few years ago. This is their advice following the data loss.

I'm sure the government had people all over this, desperately trying to find those discs before the story got out. The fact that they've still not been found isn't a good sign. The thing is, who's going to have the balls to use the data?