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

[Owen Lewis]

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From: "Barnaby Prendergast" <ybanrab@hotmail.com>
To: <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Sent: 24 March 2000 18:48
Subject: Re: BBC Online 24/3/2000: "MI5 laptop snatched"

> 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...

Why? You know the answer. Find yourself the subject of a serious criminal
investigation and you may fairly assume that experts not employed within the
Police Service will examine numerous items.  Find youself duly charged and
the number of persons fiddling about in your business will rise markedly, to
include a whole sheaf of lawyers, court officials and defence experts.

What point do you make?

Owen