Everyone is rightly pissed off at the stupidity of having so many records on the one laptop (leaving the location aside for a moment). It has been suggested that a large qty of info of one classification becomes, in aggregate, a higher classification... a principle I recall too.
Question is (and I have been wondering this for a while) how then is JPA classified? It does contain an aweful lot of (admittedly often wrong
) data on serving personnel. Some are rightly concerned about the danger of it falling into the worst hands... what if JPA is successfuly hacked?
It may be difficult but the scale of the 'reward' must dictate that it be worth some effort. Terrorist access to JPA would be potentialy worse since all on it are guarenteed to be serving, this laptop data is not so 'pure' in that many never joined.
Could a cunning terrorist corrupt JPA in order to prevent those serving from recieving their pay? Just imagine what it would do to morale and retention if thousands of servicemen and women were underpaid every month and nothing was done about it...