Operation Rubific (2 Viewers)

[Nick]

How £7bn Afghan migrant scheme was sparked by soldier's email blunder

Amid great secrecy and alarm, Operation Rubific was launched. It was one of the biggest peacetime evacuations in modern UK history: rescuing Afghans whose names were on a leaked database.

www.dailymail.co.uk

How on earth in this day and age can a highly confidential database "accidentally" be sent via Email?

 

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[wingy]

How £7bn Afghan migrant scheme was sparked by soldier's email blunder

Amid great secrecy and alarm, Operation Rubific was launched. It was one of the biggest peacetime evacuations in modern UK history: rescuing Afghans whose names were on a leaked database.

www.dailymail.co.uk

How on earth in this day and age can a highly confidential database "accidentally" be sent via Email?

Deliberate or, just been through it with Lewis Goodall,does it shape the world as he's kind of suggesting?

 

[David O'Day]

once worked with a girl who accidentally sent the who complaints log to a customer instead of a blank form - easily done

 

[fernandopartridge]

How £7bn Afghan migrant scheme was sparked by soldier's email blunder

Amid great secrecy and alarm, Operation Rubific was launched. It was one of the biggest peacetime evacuations in modern UK history: rescuing Afghans whose names were on a leaked database.

www.dailymail.co.uk

How on earth in this day and age can a highly confidential database "accidentally" be sent via Email?

Because database probably just means Excel workbook in this case

 

[chiefdave]

Because database probably just means Excel workbook in this case

More than likley. Was it the covid testing that fell apart because they'd saved an Excel spreadsheet in an old format and it couldn't cope with anymore data being added

 

[Nick]

How can a military email address physically even send an attachment to somebody external?

 

[fernandopartridge]

How can a military email address physically even send an attachment to somebody external?

Because they put trust that people don't inadvertently share sensitive information

 

[Nick]

Because they put trust that people don't inadvertently share sensitive information

It shouldn't be possible for anything to be shared. That's my point.

 

[fernandopartridge]

It shouldn't be possible for anything to be shared. That's my point.

What would be the point in having an email account

 

[Nick]

What would be the point in having an email account

Because you would think any outgoing email from the military would be scanned and filtered if needed. Even more so with attachments that apparently had so much personal information.

It's basic security where the email system would block it from getting out.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Because you would think any outgoing email from the military would be scanned and filtered if needed. Even more so with attachments that apparently had so much personal information.

It's basic security where the email system would block it from getting out.

Ah fair enough, yes of course there should be a filter, I thought you were suggesting an outright ban of attachments.

That said, you'd expect most excel sheets to get through a filter regardless

 

[Nick]

Ah fair enough, yes of course there should be a filter, I thought you were suggesting an outright ban of attachments.

That said, you'd expect most excel sheets to get through a filter regardless

If it's the military, outgoing attachments should be heavily scanned / contents checked and probably blocked.

I just can't how physically it's possible to send a document full of personal info by mistake. From a small business or personal email yes, not from the army.

 

[chiefdave]

One of our clients at my last place was a company who had hundreds of millions, if not billions, in IT contracts and project for various government departments and branches of the armed forces.

Given how little they knew and how often they fucked up this does not surprise me in the slightest.

You could tell me they had the army using hotmail accounts and it wouldn't be a shock.

 

[Captain Dart]

£7bn, that's more than the £5bn Starmer/Reeves wanted to strip from disability support.

 

[David O'Day]

£7bn, that's more than the £5bn Starmer/Reeves wanted to strip from disability support.

saying we shouldn't help people who risked their lives for the uk and now maybe in danger as the british army fucked up?

 

[shmmeee]

If it's the military, outgoing attachments should be heavily scanned / contents checked and probably blocked.

I just can't how physically it's possible to send a document full of personal info by mistake. From a small business or personal email yes, not from the army.

scratch what I wrote. FFS it was an excellent workbook.

Someone needs sacking.

 

[chiefdave]

it was an excellent workbook

 

[SkyBlueCharlie9]

If it's the military, outgoing attachments should be heavily scanned / contents checked and probably blocked.

I just can't how physically it's possible to send a document full of personal info by mistake. From a small business or personal email yes, not from the army.

Come on then Nick, any thoughts on what you think is the real reason is behind this email leak? I can feel you itching to say.

 

[stay_up_skyblues]

I had a chap accidentally pay £50,000 in legal costs meant for the solicitor to the Claimant years ago. He didn’t check the bank details before pressing send. Oddly enough they couldn’t get hold of the Claimant to ask for it back. Presumably somewhere on a beach in Mexico at that point.

 

[Nick]

Come on then Nick, any thoughts on what you think is the real reason is behind this email leak? I can feel you itching to say.

I can see you're making things up again.

 

[SkyBlueSoul]

 

[Nick]

Turns out the government are the people smugglers

 

[wingy]

Turns out the government are the people smugglers

Quite likely, must be lucrative in some form?