legalise it
legalise cybercrime, criminalise stupidity.
Civil servants who lose public data could be prosecuted under proposals announced by the Conservative Party. It's one of a number of measures touted, as the Tories call for major changes in how the UK deals with cybercrime and data protection. The Tories' report - Tackling Cybercrime - calls for new offences for civil servants …
Its not as if banks lack cryptographic hardware and software. If they signed their emails, it would be a hell of a lot easier to put off the phishers.
Of course, they are far to busy earning multi billion pound profits to spend money on security. I mean, look at how they went for the cheap Chip and Pin option that didn't have a way for the cards to verify the readers and encrypt the connection to the bank. Oh look, there is now fake readers doing the rounds...
GAAAH!
Reinforcing the attitude that what's wrong with doing something criminal is being found out. Now that is respect for the law! Inverted.
Or perhaps they're just rehearsing their moves before joining the Borg after the next election.
Nothing to see here, move along now.
Bring in punishment for the civil servants, but I would love to see the actual politicians in charge of these departments being held accountable and being tried and hanged (sorry meant jailed).
As for phishing, just don't answer any emails from big companies, too easy to get bent over if you do.
"Civil servants who lose public data could be prosecuted under proposals announced by the Conservative Party"
They could also be prosecuted under the data protection act but, strangely, they're not. Introducing something else for them to be prosecuted under is a little pointless if you're not even going to bother enforcing the ones we already have. Of course, actually enforcing the current laws doesn't make as interesting news as introducing new, redundant, laws.