Here we go

I wrote just four months ago about the census. My penultimate sentence was:

'Well, well, we can guess, (cant we?), what sort of person decided what they needed to know, and we can guess with some certainty that they won’t be taking too much care of the information once they have got it.'

Now we learn that a group of hackers called Lutzsec has stolen the whole damn thing. Lutzsec have issued a statement, and you almost have to admire their chutzpah:

“We have blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the 2011 census,”

The whole lot. Every single address, ethnic origin, details of every Sikh and every Jedi Knight are now in the hands of some people, we don't know who, and they can publish it all for whatever reason.

Incompetence and busybodying, that's what makes up today's State. In the future anyone who gives it any information must be mad.