It's just a bunch of civil servants who are a bit (lot) out of their depth, but now less dangerous for that.
If one does need to physically transfer that amount of highly sensitive data you physically walk / drive / fly it to where it needs to go. But what is wrong with remote access? Get your server / database to talk to my server / database. We know it's not that difficult, but I suspect that their IT systems are so wrapped up in protection, isolated from the rest of the world (rest of reality) that no friendly system can talk to another one.
I bet these are people who insist on 15 character passwords with lower case, UPPER CASE, 999, and $&^^%@!$ that change every 30 days which nobody can remember and everybody writes down. *shakes head*
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Date: 2007-11-21 11:02 pm (UTC)If one does need to physically transfer that amount of highly sensitive data you physically walk / drive / fly it to where it needs to go. But what is wrong with remote access? Get your server / database to talk to my server / database. We know it's not that difficult, but I suspect that their IT systems are so wrapped up in protection, isolated from the rest of the world (rest of reality) that no friendly system can talk to another one.
I bet these are people who insist on 15 character passwords with lower case, UPPER CASE, 999, and $&^^%@!$ that change every 30 days which nobody can remember and everybody writes down. *shakes head*
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Date: 2007-11-21 11:09 pm (UTC)It makes me think of the joke about the countryman giving directions :
"well, if I was going where you're going, I wouldn't be starting from here!"