Posts by Peter Ingram 13 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2007
Why stop at notification when a breach occurs? That's just shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
I feel all organizations who store personal information should, every year, write to the person and tell them where they got the data, what the data is, and to whom they have passed this information on.
That way, anybody can challenge the accuracy of the data, and it's distribution.
The "I hate this, stop it immediately" appears to be a more apparant on the Internet.
I've seen this before in forums, and comments about websites and other things. Users, readers, commentators and other third parties seem quite happy to attack those who put the effort in to create Internet content for it not being quite what they wanted.
For some reason they seem to believe that websites are public ownership, and that the creators and mediators need to conform to some rules defined by the readership. I've heard of websites being threatened under Freedom of Speech legislation for removing comments just because they were about something other than what the owner of the website wanted.
I wonder if it stems from the "I want the world this way - you must make it so" kind of attitude we live in today. Everything you want, you can have just by demanding. I'm sick of it.
So if El-reg wants to write about Italian goat herders sucking on black New Zealand ummm things - then bloody well shut the f**k up. If you don't like it, piss off to somewhere else.
Rant over! Set the main sail and head for open water Lester and co!
We are having unprecidented amounts of stop and searches at the railway stations in Scotland under the direct orders of Ian Johnston, using the Terrorism Act - so is he now pushing for the powers to search our computers, phones and MP3 players as well - in the off-chance they might catch a baddie?
It gets more like 1984 all the time.
The hi-tech anti-terrorist team (complete with parachuting amphibious/frogman High Court beak) will be on the verge of carrying out their first ever raid on a major underground cell when suddenly the MPAA lawyers will burst in and sieze everything going - citing breach of copyright...
With 555 passengers, there will be at least five of them get themselves so pissed in the airport bar they will not actually make it to the plane, and hence anyone wanting to go anywhere on an A380 will always be two hours late due to the off-loading of unaccompanied luggage.
The problem is not with the government failing to provide support for multiple operating systems / browsers, but a lack of compatibility amongst them.
It would be more efficent if, across the whole of the internet, the browsers would all responsed the same way to the same code, rather than have to make different versions of web pages for different browsers.
Or is that stating the bleeding obvious?
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