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On Friday 12 October 2007 23:14, tom wrote: > Henry Bremridge wrote: . . . > Its funny that there is no mention of the encryption standards used on > the expensive DIS (black) boxes that will be a compulsory purchase by > all government agencies. That maybe because to my best knowledge they > are not using any .... because its all going to be transmitted over > "secured" lines. > > Given the trend for local government to seek "out sourcing" partners to > act as service providers, the number of "agencies" will proliferate > exponentially ... all needing their own DIS box to do the "business" of > government. > > I will leave your own imaginations to work out what sensitive bits of > your information will be banded around this "secure network" in "plain > text". What really gets me is that people can actually con the people who spend our money to re-engineer what will basically be parts of the internet at greatly increased expense without any of the benefits of the internet. Its a new law of massively diminishing returns! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html