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

[Barnaby Prendergast]

>From: "Owen Lewis" <oml@eloka.demon.co.uk>
>Reply-To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
>To: <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: BBC Online 24/3/2000: "MI5 laptop snatched"
>Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:26:49 +0100
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>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

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Point being that if MI5 can be duped in public by "children", there is
not an awful lot of hope for the AT&T chaps's keys being secure in an
un-security-savvy third party's hands whilst they decrypt his clients'
data because plod can't figure out how to use PGP.

As an aside, who wants to bet that the passphrase for the MI5 laptop
was his mother's maiden name?;-)
Barney
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