It Could Be Worse!

[#1]

OK.... in the scheme of things how much do you care about the theft of email addresses now?
By comparison this is truly astonishing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7104945.stm

[#2]

This made me laugh. Lots.
EDIT: Drat it. It's gone. Apparently ebay didn't get the joke. Suffice to say someone was auctioning 2 cd's found in his courier office, containing password protected database files. Last I looked it had reached £25.

[#3]

Never mind - the register have archived the auction, for posterity or somesuch.

[#4]

Quote from: MrToast

OK.... in the scheme of things how much do you care about the theft of email addresses now? By comparison this is truly astonishing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7104945.stm

well i got a HMRC letter saying i owed a 100 quid penalty yesterday, but it was someone elses name
how ironic..

[#5]

Quote from: orbrey

Never mind - the register have archived the auction, for posterity or somesuch.

I've just posted in another thread that the discs have been found.  They're being given away with the Daily Mail on Saturday.