| Note that it does say "password protected", and by that I assume encrypted - and if they've gone to the effort of encryption it'll be proper Government approved (ie CESG tested it and can't break it easily / at all) encryption which only the really really expert criminals would have any chance of ever getting anything off it.
Given that this was simply posted and didn't turn up, no doubt there's an anonymous brown envelope sat somewhere, that will go the way of all the mail the Post Office lose and disappear into a black hole somewhere, never to be seen again. Various parts of the Government send sensitive documents by post all the time. It's standard practice, recommended and approved in all the security procedures.
The real headline should be "one backup copy of database lost, but 1000 other copies are fine". Or "unreadable database now unreadable by someone else".
David |