what were you thinking: Knights who say Ni

I've actually had to make  a new category for this one.

As a trained (and if I say so myself, rather expert) Computer Scientist I am very wary about security, and regularly laugh at the comical techniques Spammers use to clog my inbox with junk. If you actually do click on that link to 'Claim your $1million from the King of Zimbabwe' then you deserve to be scammed, it is Darwin at work
As they say;

ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law

So I get rather annoyed when my personal security is compromised by the incompetence of multi-million pound or dollar organisations who have entrusted my details to Infinite Monkey Theorem, only instead of producing Shakespeare they obviously produced the most useless security system imaginable.

Recently I had been noticing an increase in SPAM, which transpires was possibly (don't want to get sued now do I) due to a breach at Silverpop, a company providing email services to many large brands including Play.com. Why any company would entrust millions of customer details to a company with a name even a 5 year old would find childish is beyond me. But they did.

So now my details, along with millions of UK citizens, and many more across the world are on every spammers hit-list.