Originally Posted by wizzywick:
“Forgive me for talking about the obvious elephant in the room here, but, why didn't Radio Times actually send them the password in the first place?”
To protect people's names and addresses if the stick fell into the wrong hands, apparently. The covering letter explained they send the password when the DCMS were ready.
And, as Allan said, it was a good way of checking whether they were likely to have been read or not.
Obviously, you can't do much to protect people's details on the paper responses, though.
At least this puts to bed the excuse in the other thread, that it would have been too much of a risk to national security to have plugged a
Radio Times memory stick into a Government computer.
And if they're using a computer not connected to the Government's networks in any way, they could have done so months ago.