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

[Ian G Batten]

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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

I think it is hubris of the highest form to assume that MI5 are
universally idiots while noble upstanding cheers cheers commercial folk
have security absolutely sorted.  Instead of worrying about plod seizing
keys and then exposing them, you should also worry about their being
exposed in the natural course of business.  If MI5, with support from
CESG and GCHQ, cannot build a secure system, we must at least accept the
possibility that commercial organisations may fail as well.

ian

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