Inconvenient Data Breaches

I get a the feeling that the government is more than a little miffed that their own data leak severely wounded their ID card proposal and that someone is going to pay. I suppose it distracts from the inconvenient truth that the details of 25 million citizens were lost by government, and they can't fine themselves after all.

Of course I do not condone data leaks and strongly advocate less risky systems. Laptops belong in safes if they have client personal data on them. Remote access limitations appear to have led to a culture of carrying everything on laptops. There needs to be more focus on secure remote access using out of band authentication and strongly encrypted sessions. The risk is far less than when staff carry vast customer details around just in case.