[jambutty]

Originally Posted by kathleen_firth

i think its all a lie...........
why would social security office send really important information through royal mail first class post.
something just doesnt seem right to me

There is just one tiny inaccuracy in your statement.

The disks were apparently sent via internal mail and that was handled by TNT. But your major point is valid. Why entrust such sensitive and important information to a third party? Or if there was no real alternative then it should, at least, have been sent by Registered Mail. Not that that really guarantees safe passage. Just compensation if something gets lost.

But there was an alternative. Encrypt the data and send it via email.

There is more to this debacle than they are revealing and everybody from the top downwards is trying to distance themselves from any recriminations. Heads, and mean very senior heads, must roll without a golden goodbye and a hefty chop of their pension as an example to others.

But it won’t happen ‘cos they will just pass the buck around until it lands on some poor unfortunate clerk who was only doing what he was told to do or face the sack.