[privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database'

[Dennis Henderson]

On 1/14/07, Larry Seltzer <Larry at larryseltzer.com> wrote:
>
> >>The UK Gov seems to be fascinated with the idea of huge databases on
> computers, much the same way a rabbit is fascinated by a stoat.
>
> I'm sure I'm not the only non-Brit asking myself "WTF is a stoat?"
>
> c/o Dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stoat): "the
> ermine, Mustela erminea, esp. when in brown summer pelage."
>
> Larry Seltzer
> eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
> http://security.eweek.com/
> http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larryseltzer at ziffdavis.com
>

I think a stoat is like a ferret or some such creature.
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