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LulzSec hacks NHS.

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Re: LulzSec hacks NHS.

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Anonymous literally could not have asked for a better representative on the information security front. Not only are they demonstrating that nobody's information is safe right now, they're doing it in a way that gets the message across without making everybody angry at them or any other geeks or netizens. Keep up the good work.

Re: LulzSec hacks NHS.

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post #2

Anonymous literally could not have asked for a better representative on the information security front. Not only are they demonstrating that nobody's information is safe right now, they're doing it in a way that gets the message across without making everybody angry at them or any other geeks or netizens. Keep up the good work.

I'm not sure they're Anonymous. Let's just say, I hope the governments of the world don't use them as an excuse to crack down on internet freedom and try to regulate it.

Re: LulzSec hacks NHS.

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I completely believe that no patient records have been compromised - because the project to put them online is so late and over-budget (to the tune of GBP 20 billion) that it's likely never to be completed.

Let me put that number into perspective: We could buy a replacement fleet of Trident submarines from the NHS IT budget alone...

Re: LulzSec hacks NHS.

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post #4

I completely believe that no patient records have been compromised - because the project to put them online is so late and over-budget (to the tune of GBP 20 billion ) that it's likely never to be completed. Let me put that number into perspective: We could buy a replacement fleet of Trident submarines from the NHS IT budget alone...

The project is such a clusterfuck that Accenture UK reccused itself from it. You know it's doomed when consultants decide to leave.

Rats do leave a sinking ship, as they say.

Re: LulzSec hacks NHS.

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post #4

I completely believe that no patient records have been compromised - because the project to put them online is so late and over-budget (to the tune of GBP 20 billion ) that it's likely never to be completed. Let me put that number into perspective: We could buy a replacement fleet of Trident submarines from the NHS IT budget alone...

It’s wasted either way. £20bn would be much better sunk into renewables and energy independence.

Re: LulzSec hacks NHS.

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post #4

I completely believe that no patient records have been compromised - because the project to put them online is so late and over-budget (to the tune of GBP 20 billion ) that it's likely never to be completed. Let me put that number into perspective: We could buy a replacement fleet of Trident submarines from the NHS IT budget alone...

It’s wasted either way. £20bn would be much better sunk into renewables and energy independence.

It's a matter of perspective, there are shrill voices saying that if we scrap Trident all our economic woes will be over, but really there are much, much lower hanging fruit than that. A windfall tax on the big IT outsourcing firms would be a good start.

Re: LulzSec hacks NHS.

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post #2

Anonymous literally could not have asked for a better representative on the information security front. Not only are they demonstrating that nobody's information is safe right now, they're doing it in a way that gets the message across without making everybody angry at them or any other geeks or netizens. Keep up the good work.

When you use "literally" like this, it's to indicate that what follows, whilst normally metaphorical, is in this case literal. How is "asking for a better representative on the information security front" a metaphor?

The incessant misuse of the word literally, literally makes my blood boil.

(See what I did there?)

Re: LulzSec hacks NHS.

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post #2

Anonymous literally could not have asked for a better representative on the information security front. Not only are they demonstrating that nobody's information is safe right now, they're doing it in a way that gets the message across without making everybody angry at them or any other geeks or netizens. Keep up the good work.

When you use "literally" like this, it's to indicate that what follows, whilst normally metaphorical, is in this case literal. How is "asking for a better representative on the information security front" a metaphor? The incessant misuse of the word literally, literally makes my blood boil. (See what I did there?)

literally, like, amen.

Re: LulzSec hacks NHS.

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Somehow I've a feeling that we're going to soon lose a lot of freedoms that we've previously had online. This further supports the argument that the internet should be 'policed and legislated' - of course this means restricting information also ... Hackers are winning right now, but in the longer term Government and Big Business will crack the whip ...
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