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Computer security: fraud fears as scientists crack 'anonymous' datasets | Technology | The Observer

a movie rental company released an anonymous list of film-ratings taken from its 500,000 subscribers. Using a statistical “de-anonymisation” technique, the academics were able to identify individuals and their film preferences

There’s no such thing as anonymous.

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Large databases can never be secure | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

alleged he used the ECS system to look up the records of the prime minster, Alex Salmond, Jack McConnell, Celtic Football Club players, a newsreader named Jackie Bird and seven other BBC journalists

Warning shot for public databases.

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UK ignores fears over Internet Explorer despite French and German warnings | Technology | guardian.co.uk

IE6 is extensively used by the British government, including UK armed forces: in response to parliamentary questions asked last year by Labour MP and former Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson, the Ministry of Defence, which has 300,000 desktops worldwide (including ships), said it was sticking with IE6, “and at the current time does not have a requirement to move to an updated version”.

Why fix it, when you can pretend there isn’t a problem?

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