Posts by Scott Tracy

We're no longer helping UK Post Office persecute postal workers with our shonky system, says Fujitsu

Re: Strange

So...Fujitsu say they have "stopped the provision of any new witness evidence to the Post Offce". What, they have finally got round to it after all these years ??? And is that after one final (unmentioned) data dump ? The letter also says the provision of witness evidence "should never have happened". But it did - repeatedly.

As for the Post Office ex CEO (what about previous CEOs ?) she says (in essence) we relied on what we were told and it wasn't really our role to oversee this stuff anyway. She also says she does not accept "any personal criminal conduct" - actually I think the courts will be the judge of that (if it ever gets that far).

And the best we can manage as a nation is a Review to identify a few lessons which can safely be ignored. Maybe we should apply the same zeal to prosecute these people which the Post Office and Fujitsu showed to their sub-postmasters (and don't pretend Fujitsu had nothing to do with it).

Why were these people pursued so cruelly and for so long ??

Is it just me ?

Another staffer at mega-hacked Equifax slapped with insider trading rap

Re: Simply outrageous

Agreed. Reading the press release it says "DFS continues to take aggressive action in holding Equifax Inc. accountable for the massive data breach that exposed the sensitive and private information of millions of Americans". Err...basically asking Equifarce to undertake an audit is aggressive action ? And I couldn't find what happens if they don't comply (I may have lost the will to live as I read through it) - presumably they would have to instigate another audit to find out why the first audit didn't complete...Surely this level of corporate apathy and ineptitude merits penalties exponentially greater than those dished out for insider trading ? Am I missing something ?

IBM's chief diversity officer knows too much and must be stopped!

Shurely shome mishtake

"McIntyre was herself briefed to “identify, target, and devise plans to recruit more than 50 top diverse external candidates” for executive roles"

More than 50 executive roles - was she replacing the Board of Directors ?? Or is it time for another layer of management so they can get rid of more underlings ?

Carphone Warehouse cops £400k fine after hack exposed 3 MEEELLION folks’ data

Slapped wrists all round

So...what do you have to do to cop the maximum fine ?? Clearly has to be worse than exposing the details of three million (!) people. And how come their customers get no compensation (I am not a customer) ? And then Carphone Whorehouse, TalkisCheap and whoever is next get to carry on as though nothing has happened. If the same people remain in charge and therefore continue the same lazy culture and general ineptitiude regarding security of important data then it's only a matter of time til it happens again. Both companies continue to advertise allegedly great deals and most people will be totally unaware of what has happened. In our supoosedly advanced society we manage to have an inspection regime with gradings for food outlets (important), washing machines (useful but hardly critical) and sundry other applicances but nothing for ISPs, telcos and the like ?? Why not implement a system of grading on IT security, reviewed annually, which they have to display in all advertising ? Yes I know that's more bureaucracy but this is people's personal data we are talking about here - way too many people suffer from theft of personal data. Discounted £400K fines are hardly going to change the prevailing culture that people don't matter. Having to advertise a rubbish grading for a year might make companies think and might help people ask some questions when dealing with these companies.

I'm sure there are better ideas out there, just my suggestion from frustration that nothing will change if all we do is dish out a few paltry fines occasionally.