...is when is the media going to be held accountable for their blatant and purposeful (or not) reporting mistakes? In my job, if I made a mistake like that, my superiors wouldn't hesitate to terminate....

...wow. I wasn't aware the press in the UK were as truth-challenged as they are here in the US....

...any claim about protecting privacy from the one company that has been the direct or indirect cause of so much private data being lost or compromised is really rich. I'd have to think that it's a red herring, really, to divert attention away from the privacy/security problems IE 6/7/8, Windows XP/Vista/7 have already....