BBC: UK security details 'listed on web'

[Owen Blacker]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2064000/2064388.stm

| The safety of the Royal Family and top politicians is at risk because
| classified security details are being published on the internet, it has
| been revealed.
| 
| BBC Radio 4's Today programme has learned that radio scanning
| enthusiast Paul Wey is intercepting Special Branch and other security
| communications, and publishing the details on internet news groups. 
| 
| An intelligence source claimed such information poses a "severe danger"
| to the security of the most important individuals in UK society.
| 
| The source called for emergency legislation to ban the use and
| ownership of scanners.
| 
| [continues...]

So Special Branch don't use encrypted comms?  And the solution to this is to
ban the things that can intercept them.  Oh, that's ok then, cos it's not
like criminals would break the law and get them illegally(!)

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