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Sunday, 2nd November 2008

.. yet another ridiculous data breach: this time, people's passwords to the Government Gateway on a memory stick dropped in the road. Perhaps it is uncouth to point this out, but... if the system had been designed by people with any security clue whatsoever there would have been no passwords to put on a memory stick in the first place.

Ben Laurie

# 1:04 pm / security, ben-laurie, passwords

BBC Programmes via Instant Messenger. Neat jabber hack by Duncan Robertson.

# 3:58 pm / bbc, duncanrobertson, jabber, jabberbot

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