The Bar Council has just notified Geeklawyer that a thief broke into their premises and nicked a laptop and four hard-drives full of embarrassing data: the partial financial records of barristers; their names and addresses; names of the Great and the Good of the Bar Council and the Bar Standards Board; the names of complainants against barristers.
Bad huh? Sounds like the Government loosing the traditional taxpayer/MI5/MI6 data on the taxi/train/Clapham Rickshaw. Well, no. The Data was all casually unusable since it was password protected.
Props to the Bar Council for engaging in safe data-intercourse. One wonders however, given the weakness of Microsoft password protection of documents, whether this was mere password protection of the data, or encryption? The latter would make it unusable but the prevalence of password cracking tools would make the former a less than 'state of the art' form of protection, although clearly better than the Government level protection of rice paper umbrellas in a Monsoon.
@adamamyl http://is.gd/c8OR Have emailed Bar Council for more info
hey stavros
Hey! It's the Lauded Mr "Cockney Geezer" Pineapples! Awoight geezer 'ows it goin'? Got any pie n mash for me?
I'll bet the secret password was 'barrister'.
or password
Geekster,
The password is "largebriefs".
Do you not got on with Mr P?
I liked your post about the fake barrister-one of your better ones.
Keep on litigating.
Encryption or nothing. "Oh good half an umbrella, now I will only get half wet."
The Government always claims that things were safetly password protected, whereas we know that Microshite password protection is about a safe as using a novelty flavoured condem, left out in the sun with an oil based lube.
Unless they have more specialised encription then you might as well not bother with the password.
The Government makes us all jump through hoops to ensure our customers data is secure, yet through sheer incompetance they repeatedly lose highly confidential data. Why is no one ever prosecuted when these disks and laptops get forgotten on trains or simply lost in the post?
Angy steve (yuvutu.com)
Oh - you bleedin' wingers. A couple of tea-leafs broke into the building you ninnies....and stole a computer - SO BLEEDIN' WHAT !!
Happens all the time.
Get over it.
Okay - so they find out the names of a bunch of barristers.
Who gives a spider's toss?
Only you whiners
As usual, Mr 'Cockney Geezer' Pineapples, the finest criminal lawyer from Bow ever to appear at Stevenage Magistrates Court engages the Socratic method to make the thoughtful deep and incisive points that only a 2(2) in Law from North London Polytechnic is equipped to make.
Hey Stavros...P got a First as it happens - also never went to a Poly....
Never appeared before Stevenage Mags - strictly Western Circuit me.
Socratic method - ripped apart in "One L" - a terrible way to teach/learn
Learn from The P.
Hey a Q for you:
P has notice that you have a sort of PodCast thing going on - P loaded it down - is you and Chaggers QC one and the same.
The First was, if it was at all, I assume, not in 'Mastering Nested Comments'