Netzero plans are rugged and secure. Housebuilding plans are rugged and secure. Economic growth is rugged and secure.
Unfortunately all the rugged plans have met with reality and are not secure.
Why should an ID Card database be any different? There will be lots of miscreants trying to damage or corrupt it for their own purposes.
From March this year: "The personal data of millions of people living in France has likely been stolen after a widespread cybersecurity attack, and is being sold online to other scammers through the dark web.
The data – including full name, email and home addresses, phone numbers, marital status, and even nearest postal centre of the victim – is on sale for the equivalent of €10,000 in cryptocurrency. "
I'm actually heartened by the response to this Starmerbot announcement. I think it could easily spiral into a real sort of Ceausescu moment for the current UK government. Not in that they are going to be dragged out of their houses and shot, but in that they make grand announcements of what 'they' are going to do to 'us', and the tens of millions of 'us' turn around and look at the 400 odd Labour MPs and say 'You and whose Army?'
A democratic government can only govern if the governed give consent to be governed, and I think we are rapidly approaching the point where that consent is withdrawn by millions.
No crime here, of course; Sir Greased Piglet is a lawyer after all. https://archive.ph/7Dm5r
On the other hand he has repeatedly preached against legal tax avoidance which means, presumably, he is guilty of hypocrisy. Still, a long line of Labour notables have used trusts so there is precedence. The Wedgie-Benns, for instance, the Milibands, and (do I remember correctly?) the Kinnocks.
DJ - yes it's a long list and there is no reason whatever to assume that our government can do better. The problem is well known too, almost as if Starmer is seen as the best opportunity to push the idea.
Sobers - I agree, there is a heartening aspect to it. Something is stirring and it isn't a spirit of deference and willing cooperation. Too many people know this isn't for their own good.
dearieme - interesting, yes he has repeatedly preached against legal tax avoidance. There is something about Labour and hypocrisy. It's the right party for modestly wealthy hypocrites keen to put their hypocrisy on public display. Very weird people.
Scrobs - corruption, sleaze, stupidity, incompetence and failure does give a good summary though.
On the subject of the Socialist attitude to trusts: suppose you set one up with the best advice and even, perhaps, good intentions. Then you find yourself sorely tempted to convert it into a veritable ATM. Do you succumb to temptation? So it would seem. At least at the Deputy Leader level. Allegedly.
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Netzero plans are rugged and secure.
Housebuilding plans are rugged and secure.
Economic growth is rugged and secure.
Unfortunately all the rugged plans have met with reality and are not secure.
Why should an ID Card database be any different? There will be lots of miscreants trying to damage or corrupt it for their own purposes.
From March this year:
"The personal data of millions of people living in France has likely been stolen after a widespread cybersecurity attack, and is being sold online to other scammers through the dark web.
The data – including full name, email and home addresses, phone numbers, marital status, and even nearest postal centre of the victim – is on sale for the equivalent of €10,000 in cryptocurrency. "
Rugged and secure? Don't make me laugh.
I'm actually heartened by the response to this Starmerbot announcement. I think it could easily spiral into a real sort of Ceausescu moment for the current UK government. Not in that they are going to be dragged out of their houses and shot, but in that they make grand announcements of what 'they' are going to do to 'us', and the tens of millions of 'us' turn around and look at the 400 odd Labour MPs and say 'You and whose Army?'
A democratic government can only govern if the governed give consent to be governed, and I think we are rapidly approaching the point where that consent is withdrawn by millions.
No crime here, of course; Sir Greased Piglet is a lawyer after all.
https://archive.ph/7Dm5r
On the other hand he has repeatedly preached against legal tax avoidance which means, presumably, he is guilty of hypocrisy. Still, a long line of Labour notables have used trusts so there is precedence. The Wedgie-Benns, for instance, the Milibands, and (do I remember correctly?) the Kinnocks.
More diversion from the real issues with corruption, sleaze, stupidity, incompetence, failure and that's just a start...
Sounds a bit like "Safe and effective."
DJ - yes it's a long list and there is no reason whatever to assume that our government can do better. The problem is well known too, almost as if Starmer is seen as the best opportunity to push the idea.
Sobers - I agree, there is a heartening aspect to it. Something is stirring and it isn't a spirit of deference and willing cooperation. Too many people know this isn't for their own good.
dearieme - interesting, yes he has repeatedly preached against legal tax avoidance. There is something about Labour and hypocrisy. It's the right party for modestly wealthy hypocrites keen to put their hypocrisy on public display. Very weird people.
Scrobs - corruption, sleaze, stupidity, incompetence and failure does give a good summary though.
Doonhamer - it does doesn't it?
A good time to reread Heinlein’s ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress’, perhaps.
On the subject of the Socialist attitude to trusts: suppose you set one up with the best advice and even, perhaps, good intentions. Then you find yourself sorely tempted to convert it into a veritable ATM. Do you succumb to temptation? So it would seem. At least at the Deputy Leader level. Allegedly.
dearieme - surely nobody at Deputy Leader level would succumb if those good intentions were providing for a less fortunate family member.
Macheath - I'm not sure if I've read Heinlein’s ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress’. Available on Kindle though, so might download a sample to check.
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