BBC Online 24/3/2000: "MI5 laptop snatched"

Owen Lewis oml at eloka.demon.co.uk
Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:10:42 -0000


----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Ramsbottom" <donald@ramsbottom.co.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Sent: 24 March 2000 11:27
Subject: Re: BBC Online 24/3/2000: "MI5 laptop snatched"


> At 09:38 24/03/00 -0000, you wrote:
> >Lucky the chap wasn't enroute to Cheltenham with GTAC's main key archive,
> >eh? Where was it GTAC is going to be physically located Simon ?
> >
>
> My thoughts entirely, not very reassuring is it,

And I thought it was the general consensus here that good encryption is so
secure that you can allow anyone to have access to your secrets, oh, for 50
years or so :-) You really can't have it both ways, you know.

Owen