Straight To The Point

From The Reg: In a surprise to absolutely no-one, security at the British Home Office's Identity and Passport Service (IPS) database has been compromised four times, with individuals' data used inappropriately by Home Office employees and contractors. In three of the cases workers were able to access data they had no authority to use and in the fourth a worker who did have authority to access data used it inappropriately.

Still, I'm sure they'll have it all sorted out in time for ID cards, to ensure that our identities are perfectly safe. It will be the worlds first completely secure database. Maybe they can sell it to AOL? And Visa? And Mastercard? And all the others?