EU Draft Digital Signature Directive

Ian Brown I.Brown at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:48:44 +0100


igb > Of course, a Freedom Of Information Act would help here.

Well, if the one we are getting didn't have blanket exemptions for
'national security' and 'law enforcement' :(

igb > Note the MI5/MI6/GCHQ product of late.  We have the David
igb > Shaylor farce, the slightly less farcical Richard Tomlinson case

And as you say, the spectacle of the government using the Official Secrets
Act to gag accusations of mismanagement, incompetence and sexual
harassment. MI5's reputation is a not really a great matter of national
security.

Ian.