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Barrister fined after idiot husband slings unencrypted client data onto the internet

Red Bren
Paris Hilton

Idiot Husband?

Why the casual sexism? What exactly was it that the husband did that was idiotic?

He was performing a software update on a home computer. He took the precaution of making a temporary, off-site backup to prevent data loss. Not a bad thing to do, I use free tools do do similar.

Did he know his wife had stored confidential/sensitive client information on their home computer? As others have said, she should have a dedicated machine for such work.

Should he have checked through his wife's files for any confidential/sensitive data? No, because even if he did, he would not be authorised to read the sensitive documents in order to determine their sensitivity.

Paris icon, hasn't that joke passed its use-by date?

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