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

[Barnaby Prendergast]

>From: Ian G Batten <I.G.Batten@ftel.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 16:23:33 +0100 (BST)
>
> > 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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Fair enough, but I don't think anyone would suggest that giving up
keys would have a neutral efect on security risks. An insecure system
just becomes worse, a good system is compromised, probably to an
unacceptable level.

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