Tough on cyber crime, tough on the causes of cyber crime

So the Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis, has today unveiled his plans for the appointment of a Cyber Security Minister to tackle cybercrime, and at the same time rather predictably and totally deservedly fired a broadside at the government over its handling of data security. today while blasting the Government’s handling of data security. Speaking at the e-crime congress in London Davis accused the government of displaying “naïve reliance on massively centralised data systems” and a “recklessness towards personal data” which has left us all vulnerable as individuals and society as whole. In fact the exact words he used were that the way the government has handled data security has created systems that are, at the same time, “valuable, vulnerable and attractive to attack.”