On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Brenda Scourfield wrote:
> http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1295689,00.html
Of course you know what will happen - eventually the disks will be find
(or we will be told that they have), and the Government will make a big
statement about how all that data is now safe again and everyone can relax
-- simply glossing over the glaringly obvious fact that the disks could
have been copied thousands of times and sold on in the intervening period.
Even had they not maliciously 'gone astray', just misplaced through
carelessness, when someone finally finds the envelope and realises what
they are, would you trust them not to make a copy anyway, having seen all
the publicity? Maybe not for someone within the organisations at either
end, but what about all the people in the distribution chain between?
What vetting does the courier firm involved perform on its employees?
That's the great thing about digitisation, you can 'get' a digital object
without from someone without actually needing to deprive that person of
also 'having' it, which is why licensing and copyright are such difficult
areas in the digital arena.
Jethro.
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. Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services University Of Strathclyde,
Glasgow, UK
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