Comments on: Lost Revenue & Customs Data Discs

By: angela king

angela king — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:52:16 +0000

I couldn’t get onto the Hilary Clinton debate, but have to say WE NEED OBAMA to heal the wounds of the Iraq war, if nothing else, (if he can manage to dump Oprah, she is lowering the tone). Why praise Hilary for standing by Bill, the prurient interest of the press and public is the problem. People’s love lives are their own affair, and the press coverage about Bill was the disgusting thing, not anything that actually happened in his private life, which is his business and Hilary’s.

As for the lost DVDs, crikey, I hope it is not Spencer Perceval all over again, the way things are going for Gordon. He is a jittering nervous wreck, lurching from one mishap to another, while Alastair Darling faffs around in the background to the swirl of bagpipes. JEEZ how long are we going to have to suffer the bumblings of these two incompetents?

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By: Lady Bracknell

Lady Bracknell — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:38:00 +0000

To lose one parent may be considered unfortunate, to lose both …

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By: Elizabeth Obisanya

Elizabeth Obisanya — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:50:45 +0000

Should have gone to UPS!!

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By: markgamon

markgamon — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:52:53 +0000

Amazing. Boris finally spots that the banks are crap.

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By: Alan D.

Alan D. — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:35:14 +0000

Haha boris spot on! You truly are the most hilarious politician I have ever come across! I would definetely be voting you for Mayor Boris, no questions asked! You are a true legend, and also a great representative of what the Tory party and England stand for! Undoubtedly the best Tory party in years, we will “evict the Giant Newts from Westminster” won’t we Boris? Boris you are a legend!

[Ed: Boris as an unsubstantiated myth???]

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By: crystal cobweb

crystal cobweb — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:07:31 +0000

A similar thing happened to me as to Boris (about 2-3 years ago?). �1000 got lifted from my account by fraudsters passing themselves off as some Egg company. Then, a few days later, another �195 (or thereabouts) disappeared.

And yes, Abbey National paid up very quickly (to my heartfelt relief). I wonder if, by then, word had got around the banks and they’d already received calls from other people, so knew what was happening?

They did then monitor my account for a while. Unfortunately, this slightly backfired as I didn’t know they were doing it. A few weeks later, I was in Croatia and, while there, took a day trip to Montenegro, where I tried to get some cash out of a machine and was refused. I got a bit of a fright, but things were fine again once I’d returned to Croatia.

Back in London, I asked them what had happened. They said that the money had been blocked because they found it suspicious that the same account should be used in 2 separate countries within such a short space of time. They were trying to protect me… Obviously, they hadn’t realised how near to each other the 2 places are! However, I suppose that they did try…

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By: Captain Badger

Captain Badger — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:14:00 +0000

“I don’t look at opinion polls, what I do look at is, what is your record on the ground”

-Gordon Brown

Apropos nothing, I felt moved to share this with you. I think Nero said something similar, only in Latin, obviously.

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By: Mc

Mc — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:37:51 +0000

Now for ID cards: Tsutomu Matsumoto is a Japanese mathematician, a cryptographer who works on security, and he decided to see if he could fool the machines which identify you by your fingerprint. This home science project costs about �20. Take a finger and make a cast with the moulding plastic sold in hobby shops. Then pour some liquid gelatin (ordinary food gelatin) into that mould and let it harden. Stick this over your finger pad: it fools fingerprint detectors about 80% of the time. The joy is, once you’ve fooled the machine, your fake fingerprint is made of the same stuff as fruit pastilles, so you can simply eat the evidence.

Guardian, Ben Goldacre, 24 Nov

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By: Steven_L

Steven_L — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:10:20 +0000

Nonsense Boris, they’ll just use this as a way of scaring people into wanting to go biometric.

I’ve had my bank card cloned before. HSBC telephoned me one morning to ask me if I had been using it in Romford. Their fraud triggers had picked up the fraudulent transactions. They were given away, I was told, by the fact that the fraudster had used the card to make small �1 purchases as a test before moving onto bigger purchases.

Surely if the banks and other companies can identify cases of fraud from monitoring patterns of behaviour there could be some kind of police computer system to do the same thing and alert the cops to suspected instances of fraud taking place. I bet it would cost less that ten-billion quid to make such a system too.

[Ed: alternatively AN Bank will allow purchases on the same card at much the same time in both Street (Somerset) and Malta within minutes of each other.... Perhaps banks have not got it quite right, either...?]

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By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:24:46 +0000

Never mind all this! If we have to have a blond tory twit on “Have I Got News For You” we want Borris!

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