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Re:Lulzsec claim to have the 2011 UK Census records. by thomasknowles on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @09:46AM (#2678708)
Re:Lulzsec claim to have the 2011 UK Census records. by yaix on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @07:35AM (#2678301)
"... the security-illiterate UK government ..."

They have a point there.

More than once have those people at the UKgov simply "lost" notebooks or HDDs.

Do they really store the complete census data on an unencrypted HDD? Even my cheap netbook is better secured (Ubuntu has encrypted ~ as default and additionally I use encFS for any data that goes to a backup external USB-HDD, its not like it was diffcult to set up in 2011).

I just hope lulzsec publishes parts (anonymized hopefully) of it and some high politician gets finished by the media and is forced to resign over it. Looks like that is the only way to make the people responsible start to actually secure things. As I said, currently even my netbook is better secured.

Re:Lulzsec claim to have the 2011 UK Census records. by Macha on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @09:34AM (#2678654)
Since when has Ubuntu encrypted filesystems by default? Last I used Ubuntu it sure didn't.
Re:Lulzsec claim to have the 2011 UK Census records. by mcantelon on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @09:58AM (#2678759)
They now offer, duringinstallation, te option to encrypt your home directory.
Re:Lulzsec claim to have the 2011 UK Census records. by baddox on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @11:59AM (#2679277)
As of yesterday, the option is there, but is unchecked by default.
Re:Lulzsec claim to have the 2011 UK Census records. by ManAboutCouch on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @06:30AM (#2678150)
An update, also on PasteBin: http://pastebin.com/g1C7d82G
Re:Lulzsec claim to have the 2011 UK Census records. by chalst on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @07:07AM (#2678226)
Update from whom? It's just an anonymous message.
Re:Lulzsec claim to have the 2011 UK Census records. by speckledjim on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @07:37AM (#2678310)
whoooosh