Parliament's security staff lose parliament security data
Laptop goes MIA from Westminster
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A laptop containing information about Parliament's security systems disappeared from, er, the department responsible for Parliament's security last week, claims the Daily Telegraph. According to the paper, the machine belonged to an official working for the Serjeant at Arms, and disappeared from inside the parliamentary estate.
Westminster's security pass system is famously insecure, passes having been handed out liberally to thousands of people over the years. The Mother of Parliaments is also reasonably notorious for its high volume of thefts and disappearances (equipment and furniture, rather than MPs and Peers), and the vanishing laptop ties these together neatly.
A new system of Parliamentary security passes is currently being rolled out, and although it won't be particularly sophisticated (more information here), it will have at least a short term effect in that it will expire all the old passes that have gone missing. The laptop, however, includes information about access control which could possibly compromise security. But if somebody has successfully lifted it from inside Parliament, then it's quite possible that the laptop doesn't have a great deal useful to tell them. ®
COMMENTS
Your all miissing the point!
Once the government has successfully 'lost' the personal details of every man, woman and child in the country there will be no need to worry about identity theft and personal details being open to abuse when they introduce ID cards since everyone’s details will already be in the public domain!
@Slaine
"who refuse to legalise cannibals;"
Bloody foodists. Cannibalism was good enough for our ancestors, and it ought to be good enough for Parliament! After all, it's not as if humans would stoop to consuming MPs or Peers...
The tweed with the leather elbows, thanks.
@Brain Drain
@Brain drain.
that's the reason I'm now in NZ!
@An ominous cow herd.
NO - they REFUSE to legalise cannabis.....
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