Posts by Phil Goldsbrough

US gov may forbid BAE Eurofighter sale to Saudis

@Gordon Pryra

Maggie negotiated Al-Yamamah personally. Mark Thatcher was employed as a special consultant on the project and earned a multi-million pound fee.

The whole thing stinks

Info chief renews call for data breach crime penalties

Junior Official

I don't think we're being given the full story. Based on my experience at a government department (where my wife still works) I would guess that:

The involvement of the junior official was probably limited to putting the disks in the post.

A more senior official would have had to request the data from the IT provider (EDS?). As this was an ad-hoc request then there would have been a charge. This charge was probably less for a database dump than for selecting specific data.