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security: the lucky country  Summary: Does anyone seriously
believe that Australian businesses and government agencies
manage security any better than the US or UK?            She
will, as we say, be right.  Topics: Security, Hardware, Privacy,
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Privacy laws without teeth      Hi Liam i could not agree more
with you on this. The public really has no idea what a mess we
could easily be in. Having worked in IT and Security for 20
years i have seen first hand on a number of occasions how bad
some of our leading organisations are when it comes to data
privacy. Encryption of backups when still using tapes i find is
almost non existent. Another area i have seen where significant
threats exists is around development systems. These systems need
to use real data but a lot of orgs dont hash / scramble this
data. And even worse dont apply significant security to the data
once it leaves the production sy