Junior doctors, the Summary Care Record and ID cards
Two interesting interviews on Radio 4’s “Today” programme on 26th April about the security breach that published junior doctors’ personal details on the Internet. Also covered are the security of the Summary Care Record and the ID card database:
0727 The Department of Health has admitted a “serious” mistake that allowed personal details of 7000 junior doctors to be available on the internet. We are joined by Alex Liakos, a junior doctor whose details were among those published.
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0830 We are joined by Lord Hunt and Shadow Immigration Minister Damien Green to discuss recent major security breaches.
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April 26th, 2007 at 15:42
I think if there were any single example, this would be the reason I would cite for my refusal to register for an ID card if called to account before a Court of Law. It clearly demonstrates that anyone who willingly allows this government and civil service to store every aspect of their life a single/interconnected system is either woefully underinformed or certifiable.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:06
There wasn’t even a password protecting the spreadsheet!
The URL in question was an open page that ANYONE could access from any browser. The only security was it’s obsurity.
Only goes to show that when management push comes to shove, IT folk will take short-cuts to get things done in a hurry. It was just quicker and easier to publish the spreadsheet and circulate the URL, than to place authentication on the page and circuate the credientials.
Ah well, sigh!
April 27th, 2007 at 11:49
after 10 yrs of this goverment everything they’ve tinkered with has gone into meltdown
not fit for purpose i.d. cards;passports;data
base ect if you put it all together theres
only one conclusion no thought process?