[Fwd: MI5 hate encryption so much, they don't use it!]

[Philip Rowlands]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Ben Laurie wrote:

>According to Network News (the UK rag) today, MI5, the Home Office and
>others don't use PGP signing at RIPE (the European Internet registry),
>although its the only really secure method for updating records. So
>anyway, I thought I'd look into it, and, well, its true (editted
>highlights follow):
>
>www.mi5.gov.uk.         6715    IN      A       128.98.11.23
>
>inetnum:      128.98.0.0 - 128.98.255.255
>mnt-by:       QINETIQ-UK-MNT
>
>mntner:       QINETIQ-UK-MNT
>auth:         MD5-PW $1$tSMW1DGk$GIAERGLu5BwBUXabmYjvs1
[snip]
>Note: all data above is from publicly available sources.

I didn't know this stuff was publicly avaiable - care to elaborate on
these sources?


Cheers,

Phil