
Amiga HVAC controller
Not sure this beats the record of the Amiga 3000 running HVAC for a US school district for the thick end of 3 decades:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/14/amiga-controls-school-district-hvac/
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Speaking as a member of that profession that everyone loves to hate, this article is bang on. If your strategy for dealing with data breaches and attacks is to look to your lawyers to rescue you once it's happened, you are going to be disappointed. That's not to say we can't help with damage control, for instance by engaging with the ICO (and other regulators) and helping to navigate the contractual fallout. But really, prevention is so, so much better (and cheaper) than cure, and prevention needs engineers, which needs budget, which needs board buy-in.
If it helps to make the business case, engineers tend, rightly or wrongly, to be a fair bit cheaper than us lawyers.
For a legal system to have any meaning, everyone must have access to it, including those Mr Rendle declares "obviously sick".
This case will be thrown out at the earliest opportunity, and for a good legal reason.
In the meantime, we can all laugh until tea comes out of our noses.
Such a law would be unenforceable; you would need to show that a person could not possibly have acquire a given piece of information from any other source, and it would be very difficult to define what constitutes volunteering information in a sufficiently certain way.
Further, it would act as a disincentive to anyone inadvertently stumbling across something which _might_ constitute evidence of a crime since if they acted on it and it turned out to be innocuous (or even just inconclusive) they would expose themselves to prosecution under your proposed law.
I would also suggest that a person who neglects to write zeroes to every sector of a hard disk before handing it over to a stranger is not an idiot, but is simply not an IT expert.