So the UK authorities can’t even safeguard the identities of their spies and special forces soldiers, but they want us all to prove our ID and age online now, so they can track and log all our browsing activity, and we should somehow trust them not to leak this information.
thebritwriter on
I fail to see how this could had happened ‘accidentally’ (to quote reporter Joel Gunter bbc reporter outside high court – source bbc news live)
If we’re exposed to security failures by mere accidents then god forbid we face someone who has resources and planning to hack the data.
How do they not have safeguards to prevent this kind of failure?
Mayrr_ on
There’ll be an independent review into this scandal but no actual changes will come from it
ash_ninetyone on
That would more greatly explain why a Super Injunction was in place, but even still to keep this omnishambles so quiet to cover their own neglect
How do you just so wilfully expose a database like this? How do you not have everything encrypted and restricted so data cannot be accidentally leaked?
80sMovieReferences on
I thought this was just a spreadsheet. Why would all that information be accessible to one person who might leak it, accidentally or otherwise? Surely things should be compartmentalised much more strictly than that?
cornedbeef101 on
In case there’s any misconception as to who was in charge when this leak happened in February 2022,
The prime minister was Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, and the foreign secretary was Mary Elizabeth Truss.
MetalWorking3915 on
Its amazing the focus regulators put on companies around data security and yet the intelligence services and the government cant even keep their own s*** in order
Tricky_Peace on
I wonder if anyone will end up jailed under the OSA for this?
Independent-Fun-3741 on
Back in 2008 that criminal you know as Hillary Clinton made jokes about Senator John McCain’s insistence on using written notes, filing cabinets, and typewriter letters.
By 2015, we made her rue the day she ever made that joke.
And yet… it is 2025…and the intelligence services of the west still treat opsec as if it were still a joke.
I am not laughing and neither will you if I grow tired of seeing these antics that cost lives and break families apart.
No intelligence officer, soldier, foreign agent, nor their families should spend a single day of their lives looking over their shoulder or paranoid that they will be arrested or murdered because of your failure to do your job and retain secrets in a secure and orderly manner.
This is not the mistake of some single email. This is a systemic failure of the entire system.
If you do not fix this and quickly. I will sic my hounds upon you and make quick work of your leadership until they are just as paranoid and fearful of those they were appointed to protect.
I am looking at you Whitehall, Q, and M.
Fix this.
Now.
ucardiologist on
Boris pfewhell bell endJohnson have been in charge with these failures as well as with bankrupting the whole of the uk.
Spare-grylls on
They also managed to lose payroll and pension information for a shitload of serving & vets; myself included. 👍
2024-YR4 on
All this bad news coming out. They need something to divert attention away. Quick look over there, big scary Russia about to invade.
No-Strike-4560 on
Oh, so NOW we care.
Not that all the poor Afghans doing us a favour were hung out to dry , were bothered because cpl smith might get more spammy texts.
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So the UK authorities can’t even safeguard the identities of their spies and special forces soldiers, but they want us all to prove our ID and age online now, so they can track and log all our browsing activity, and we should somehow trust them not to leak this information.
I fail to see how this could had happened ‘accidentally’ (to quote reporter Joel Gunter bbc reporter outside high court – source bbc news live)
If we’re exposed to security failures by mere accidents then god forbid we face someone who has resources and planning to hack the data.
How do they not have safeguards to prevent this kind of failure?
There’ll be an independent review into this scandal but no actual changes will come from it
That would more greatly explain why a Super Injunction was in place, but even still to keep this omnishambles so quiet to cover their own neglect
How do you just so wilfully expose a database like this? How do you not have everything encrypted and restricted so data cannot be accidentally leaked?
I thought this was just a spreadsheet. Why would all that information be accessible to one person who might leak it, accidentally or otherwise? Surely things should be compartmentalised much more strictly than that?
In case there’s any misconception as to who was in charge when this leak happened in February 2022,
The prime minister was Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, and the foreign secretary was Mary Elizabeth Truss.
Its amazing the focus regulators put on companies around data security and yet the intelligence services and the government cant even keep their own s*** in order
I wonder if anyone will end up jailed under the OSA for this?
Back in 2008 that criminal you know as Hillary Clinton made jokes about Senator John McCain’s insistence on using written notes, filing cabinets, and typewriter letters.
By 2015, we made her rue the day she ever made that joke.
And yet… it is 2025…and the intelligence services of the west still treat opsec as if it were still a joke.
I am not laughing and neither will you if I grow tired of seeing these antics that cost lives and break families apart.
No intelligence officer, soldier, foreign agent, nor their families should spend a single day of their lives looking over their shoulder or paranoid that they will be arrested or murdered because of your failure to do your job and retain secrets in a secure and orderly manner.
This is not the mistake of some single email. This is a systemic failure of the entire system.
If you do not fix this and quickly. I will sic my hounds upon you and make quick work of your leadership until they are just as paranoid and fearful of those they were appointed to protect.
I am looking at you Whitehall, Q, and M.
Fix this.
Now.
Boris pfewhell bell endJohnson have been in charge with these failures as well as with bankrupting the whole of the uk.
They also managed to lose payroll and pension information for a shitload of serving & vets; myself included. 👍
All this bad news coming out. They need something to divert attention away. Quick look over there, big scary Russia about to invade.
Oh, so NOW we care.
Not that all the poor Afghans doing us a favour were hung out to dry , were bothered because cpl smith might get more spammy texts.
Insert David Beckham meme,
Tell me the real reason for the super injunction
No the real reason
That’s better