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

[Barnaby Prendergast]

>From: "Brian Gladman" <brian.gladman@btinternet.com>
>Reply-To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
>To: <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: BBC Online 24/3/2000: "MI5 laptop snatched"
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:42:14 -0000
>
>From: "Donald Ramsbottom" <donald@ramsbottom.co.uk>
>To: <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
>Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 3:15 PM
>Subject: Re: BBC Online 24/3/2000: "MI5 laptop snatched"
>
[chop]>In my view the contents are not absolutely secure. If this computer 
was
>stolen by 'kids' it will almost certainly defeat them but if this was a
>targetted theft by a foreign power (possibly disguised) then I am much less
>certain that the contents will remain secure.  Computer security, as
>distinct from cryptographic algorithm security, is very, very hard to
>achieve.
>
>      Brian

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I thought it was common knowledge that the police regularly *lose*, is
such a term is not too narrowly construed, things. They have been
known also to damage and inadvertantly destroy evidence that they
hold.
Oh, and how much of the seized  information held will be kept by them,
or will they be sending this information to "trusted" third parties
for processing? I think we should be told...

:)
barney
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