Tuesday January 23, 2007 Dave's Bit Bucket
Dave Walker's jottings - mostly pertaining to security
Tuesday January 23, 2007 "People, policy, procedure..."
It's often said that "security is 70% people, policy and procedure, and 30% what you do to the computers".
This was brought home to me on the train into London this morning, when I sat next to a young lady who was reading a bunch of documents contained in a bulging lever-arch file. The documents had Crown Prosecution Service header pages on them, and appeared to be all the trial documents associated with a rape case - witness statements, forensic reports, the lot.
Some of them were even protectively-marked as RESTRICTED in the header and footer on each page.
I was able to see all the details - names of plaintiff, accused, witnesses etc - as were some folk who got on at the next station and stood next to us.
Sometimes I wonder why we bother with computer security - on the other hand, I wish I had been able to figure out how to get her details, to pass to someone who could get her clearance revoked...
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