More missing government data! This time it looks like data has been lost for 100,000 service personnel. Somehow there has to be a better way of handling data than this.
They found out because of an "audit" and I'm betting this was only done because of the takeover of EDS. If no one ever checks what's out on the desktop then it's no wonder that people forget to take simple precautions. The reality is that this disk drive has probably been lost at the back of a drawer somewhere but it would still be interesting to know how much data is out on desktops and on pen drives compared with how much there is in data centres, these days.
We're doing some stuff developing applications in this area, so I hope to be able to post some more thoughts on this soon.
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