Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

vivatifosi

Good luck michaels.

My brother and parents are also with TalkTalk. Urrrrghhhhh...

Thankfully we are not.

michaels

It is only names, addresses, bank details, dob, email address so nowt serious :eek: - and what odds that passwords weren't encrypted either? Honestly for a large company to fail to secure customer data should be a criminal offence on the part of the directors, clearly the incentives are all wrong at the moment.

michaels

Not to mention I have 2 x £25 bespoke offer vouchers that now appear to be worthless

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

Oh great, personal data with TalkTalk looks to be about as secure as using one of Generali's hotspots:

https://myaccount.talktalk.co.uk/login/login/login

Woohoo!

*celebrates paying three weeks of service, receiving one and a potential breach of personal data protection*

CKhalvashi

vivatifosi wrote: »

Not addressing this to anyone in particular, but...... the BBC pay a large amount of money each year to the EBU as UK is of the Big 5. In addition to Eurovision, the EBU has bloc voted for the TV rights to major sporting events, in particular the Olympic Games which have traditionally been shown on the BBC as a result of that bloc.

This was the real jewel in the crown for the BBC. The Eurovision is fun, and brings in several million viewers, but the Olympic Games has been on a totally different scale. However the BBC will lose its right to broadcast the games as this right has been won by Eurosport/Discovery. Therefore the BBC may well question what the hell it has been paying the EBU for. Oh, and it's not just the BBC that's smarting, but broadcasters all over Europe.

Here's some light background reading:
The new deal:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33311902
http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/rte-loses-rights-to-the-olympic-games-31337890.html

In 2012 the BBC paid £1.2m to the EBU, of which £310k was for entry to Eurovision:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/117626/response/295282/attach/html/4/RFI20120570%20final%20response.pdf.html

In other words, there appear to be problems at many of their doors...

I'd be looking at the BBC and their funding and addressing any questions at that particularly sensitive wedge.

We have a much better idea in the interim.

In fact, it's so good that [don't quote photo]

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But I can't tell you what it is

zagubov

Years ago the LA Olympics were being put to a bid by broadcasters which could have included US cable companies.

One outcome could have been that ordinary TVs couldn't receive it but the cable company could use their monopoly to set up mini-cinemas all over Britain etc. (ie vacant shops converted into rooms with seats and a telly) where they could charge us to come in and watch.

And what's wrong with that , some people might say…………..

Generali

Doozergirl wrote: »

Woohoo!

*celebrates paying three weeks of service, receiving one and a potential breach of personal data protection*

We had ASIO (Australia's spy lot) in at work a while back.

They reckon that you can simply split companies into two groups:

- Companies which have been hacked
- Companies that will be hacked

There is basically nothing that companies can do about being hacked. What they can do is tell customers quickly that their info has been hacked. Most peoples' PCs are most likely riddled with bots and so on anyway.

A colleague at Big Bad US Investment Bank had worked at MI5. They were welcome to surf the web at lunchtime....on computers that were on a completely separate network to the work computers and which were never used for work purposes.

GDB2222

zagubov wrote: »

Years ago the LA Olympics were being put to a bid by broadcasters which could have included US cable companies.

One outcome could have been that ordinary TVs couldn't receive it but the cable company could use their monopoly to set up mini-cinemas all over Britain etc. (ie vacant shops converted into rooms with seats and a telly) where they could charge us to come in and watch.

And what's wrong with that , some people might say…………..

I approve! But that's because I don't think that watching sport is interesting. Doing it is fun, but not watching someone else. So, not having the olympics clogging up my TV would be just fine, and having the money freed up spent on new drama would also be just fine.

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

We had ASIO (Australia's spy lot) in at work a while back.

They reckon that you can simply split companies into two groups:

- Companies which have been hacked
- Companies that will be hacked

There is basically nothing that companies can do about being hacked. What they can do is tell customers quickly that their info has been hacked. Most peoples' PCs are most likely riddled with bots and so on anyway.

A colleague at Big Bad US Investment Bank had worked at MI5. They were welcome to surf the web at lunchtime....on computers that were on a completely separate network to the work computers and which were never used for work purposes.

I have been watching a debate on tv this morning as to whether directors should be prosecuted in firms where there has been a data breach AND the company has been found not to have encrypted the sensitive data of customers.

It beggars belief that a major comms company could be on its third large scale breach in a year and still not done this. That shows either massive naivety or total disregard for their customers.

kabayiri

Generali wrote: »

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A colleague at Big Bad US Investment Bank had worked at MI5. They were welcome to surf the web at lunchtime....on computers that were on a completely separate network to the work computers and which were never used for work purposes.

You don't even need separate computers. You can build up security in depth on a laptop. I've used one of mine in a work context, using virtualisation at the hardware level. It was signed off in a secure facility too, but I can't go into details. Obviously, you need to know what you are doing.