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Taffvalerowdy said:
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In a world where the new criminals are hackers, let’s hand them the master key with digital ID cards.

If this digital ID scheme is implemented, I wonder how long it will be until it's the subject of a cyber attack with every UK Citizen's data stolen or hackers will lock the system down and hold Government to ransom?
 
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Taffvalerowdy said:
In a world where the new criminals are hackers, let’s hand them the master key with digital ID cards.

If this digital ID scheme is implemented, I wonder how long it will be until it's the subject of a cyber attack with every UK Citizen's data stolen or hackers will lock the system down and hold Government to ransom?
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These hacks are happening constantly. M&S was big news recently, offline for weeks. All governments' track record with IT is abominable anyway, so it will definitely happen. Same argument for governments trying to put back doors into encryption - totally unworkable anyway but the only winners would be the criminals. It's just more "oh, but think of the children" incompetence from idiots who have no clue and deliberately ignore all the informed advice <doh>

One hacker group actually "retired" recently as they'd made so much money <laugh>
 
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daimungeezer said:
These hacks are happening constantly. M&S was big news recently, offline for weeks. All governments' track record with IT is abominable anyway, so it will definitely happen. Same argument for governments trying to put back doors into encryption - totally unworkable anyway but the only winners would be the criminals. It's just more "oh, but think of the children" incompetence from idiots who have no clue and deliberately ignore all the informed advice <doh>

One hacker group actually "retired" recently as they'd made so much money <laugh>
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It’s nice in the Bahamas :)
 
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daimungeezer said:
These hacks are happening constantly. M&S was big news recently, offline for weeks. All governments' track record with IT is abominable anyway, so it will definitely happen. Same argument for governments trying to put back doors into encryption - totally unworkable anyway but the only winners would be the criminals. It's just more "oh, but think of the children" incompetence from idiots who have no clue and deliberately ignore all the informed advice <doh>

One hacker group actually "retired" recently as they'd made so much money <laugh>
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The hackers are doing a lot of damage to JLR, with the adverse knock on effects throughout their supply chain.

I’m guessing that Tata Consultancy are the IT consultants to JLR - weren’t they also the same to M&S?
 
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Taffvalerowdy said:
The hackers are doing a lot of damage to JLR, with the adverse knock on effects throughout their supply chain.

I’m guessing that Tata Consultancy are the IT consultants to JLR - weren’t they also the same to M&S?
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I don't know that one exactly but if you consider this is happening *all the time* and supply chains are definitely targeted as they'll need to pay up pronto because of the knock on effect up the chain, then probably! This happened to a (supermarket?) food supply chain recently, possibly in America, I can't remember but the knock on effect was a thing.
 
daimungeezer said:
I don't know that one exactly but if you consider this is happening *all the time* and supply chains are definitely targeted as they'll need to pay up pronto because of the knock on effect up the chain, then probably! This happened to a (supermarket?) food supply chain recently, possibly in America, I can't remember but the knock on effect was a thing.
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I’ve checked - TCS are consultants to both JLR and M&S.
 
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