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

[Donald Ramsbottom]

>> 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.
>

As I said in my post it was not the content which was worrying, but the fact
that an "MI5" operative (of whatever level)was apparently duped by
streetwise kids. That was what concerned me. I have little doubt that the
contents will be secure provided that all protocols have been followed, but
given the reassuring noises made by the HO at SFS2000 about GTAC and its
security, the timing of this was lousy.

Donald Ramsbottom LL.B, BA (Hons).

RAMSBOTTOM & Co. Solicitors

Internet Law & Global Cryptology Law Specialists