The civil service's systems will be subjected to new attacks by independent white hat hackers in a bid to spot weaknesses in government data handling before catastrophic losses occur, it was announced today.The white hat programme is one of a suite of targets, training and scrutiny measures that Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell hopes will bring about a "culture change" across the civil service and restore public faith in the government's competence in handling sensitive data. He said: "The risk we must counter is that citizens and business lose trust in the Government to handle their data effectively. It would be foolish not to acknowledge that the lapses in data security have affected this confidence."
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No No... this is the same government that outlawed the use of many of the tools the white hackers use.
Govt.: "Oh, that would cost too much. We'll carry on and hope it doesn't happen again" (right before handing another multi-million contract to the same bunch of useless losers who cocked it up last time)
This has been going on for years. Why is this instance going to be any different?
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