"There has been nothing proven against the APY board, there has been no natural justice, no procedural fairness, no compartmentalisation of any allegations," said Sansbury on behalf of the group and approved by APY.
It would therefore enforce security policies, which would deny an attacker or malicious insider access to information.One of Dr Watson's colleagues, Ben Laurie, a software-security engineer at Google and a director of the Open Rights Group, which campaigns to preserve the openness of a digital society, agrees that compartmentalisation could help limit the impact of security flaws.
That will take longer and could be even harder: the IOR is typical of a culture of secrecy and compartmentalisation that extends throughout the Vatican.
Moreover, the costs of compartmentalisation would fall as more computers use it, as happened in another area of computer science.
Robert Watson, a computer scientist at the University of Cambridge, has spent years researching "compartmentalisation".
However good Mr Blair is at compartmentalisation, it is hard to believe that the work of the people he most depends upon such as his chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, whom the police may well interview again any day has not been affected.Next week the government is expected to publish a white paper setting out its proposals for reforming the second chamber.
Strong compartmentalisation, reckons Dr Watson, would have prevented that.Compartmentalising programs does mean additional costs, but Dr Watson believes firms would find the investment worthwhile because it would make data more secure.
"We can use compartmentalisation to restrict the effects of a successful compromise," says Dr Watson.
I doubt whether we are alone in our desire to resist reductive classification and compartmentalisation. On another level, though, the controversy around Dolezal reminds us of an ideal and the mantra that parents often tell their children (as I did mine when they were growing up): you can be whoever you want to be.
As for compartmentalisation, given how universal vaccination was, his numbers for those involved in any conspiracy there were probably "a massive underestimate".
