• David.Poole (10/8/2013)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/6/2013)


    Jeff Moden (10/5/2013)


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    I guess that qualifies as a "rant", huh?

    Yep, and I agree.

    Ditto from me.

    I agree too. But Jeff understated it, this stuff needs serious penalties and insurance premiums won't be painful enough to make anything happen. In Europe we have some legislation, but the sticks consist of fines which are rarely imposed and anyway are generally at a level which is peanuts compared to the daily profits of the offending companies or the daily money wasted in government bureaucracies which also spill all sorts of data plus getting your incompetence documented in the newspapers). We need hard laws aboy what data needs to be protected properly and jail time for the directors (US English: vice presidents) responsible for the mess, because just about all the data on the planet is totally unproteced and will stay that way as until it costs real pain to fix it.

    Tom