Excellent post about how the Reserve Bank failed to admit its own lack of security awareness and lacks gratitude to those when these inadequacies of pointed out to them in the public interest.
I have been to a budget lock-up. I was not required to sign anything, hand anything over, nor rely on the technology of the Treasury to ensure there is no naughtiness.
The Reserve Bank has this afternoon released the Deloitte report into the possible leak of the OCR on 10 March, and a press statement from the Governor.
I have given comments to various media outlets, but thought I should set down my assessment for the record.
It is extremely disappointing that it has now been confirmed that there was a leak. One MediaWorks employee in the media lock-up apparently emailed several of his colleagues outside the lock-up. My involvement in this unfortunate episode arose because a MediaWorks employee sent me the email that is reproduced in the Deloitte report.
It is unfortunate that the Deloitte report does not look into (and probably was not asked to) how it was the Reserve Bank’s systems for managing lock-ups for incredibly sensitive information were as insecure as they proved to be. From the PWC report it seems that no underhand technology or secret…
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