Official's comments come under fire.
Andy Smith, an Internet security chief at the Cabinet Office, advised Internet users to give false details in many cases while using the Internet. For example, he suggested that you lie about your date of birth, and other information, while using social network websites, and give false information to websites that you can't fully trust.
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I suppose this is all 'fine & dandy' until you run into a situation like the one in South Carolina when foreign malfeasance ripped off several thousand [correction: million] constituents information from their servers here not so long ago.
Granted, not all the information was entered electronically by each individual, but I think we get the idea. Sometimes our hand is called for us.
Any competent computer user has been doing so since the internet started its just common sense.
Never give your correct info ... ever....
And if its in government websites do it on paper and forget using the internet for anything you have to give you correct details for cos as we have seen government officials seem adept at leaving their unencrypted laptops on trains , planes and automobiles...
