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

[Owen Lewis]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Perry" <roland@linx.net>
To: <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Sent: 24 March 2000 15:52
Subject: Re: BBC Online 24/3/2000: "MI5 laptop snatched"


> In article <200003241347.NAA21217@taggart.ftel.co.uk>, Ian G Batten
> <I.G.Batten@ftel.co.uk> writes
> >I am cursed with a memory for newspaper
> >stories
>
> There was also an Army(?) intelligence officer who had his laptop stolen
> a few years ago when looking at secondhand cars at a garage on the A40.

Royal Air Force.

If you have an interest in these things, look up the exploit of a certain
Lt-Col Meinherzhagen (yes he was British) in Palestine in 1917.The
similarity of overtones in his story and the one referred of above are quite
uncanny.

But then people forget so quickly, don't they?


Owen