WE WERE impressed to hear about the largesse of a prominent British government-funded research organisation, which we won’t name to avoid creating embarrassment. But we were less impressed by its computer security.
A friend turned up last week bearing a rather nice laptop computer. He had just found it in some rubbish outside a block of London flats. Dutifully, he phoned the number marked on the laptop, established that it had come from the research organisation’s administration offices, and asked what he should do with it.
“Keep it,” they told him. “We’ve replaced all our PCs and the old ones have been junked.”…
