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[Richard D G Cox]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:46:10 +0100, Roland Perry <roland@linx.net> wrote:

> I have already explained why this is a sensitive area, and the
> information I have was supplied under NDA.

You can't get a PII waiver for this list, you know ;-))

(Quoting Owen Lewis)
>> That logic comes close to re-inforcing my view that the police do not,
>> in fact, bring charges against these people.
> 
> Then you would be completely wrong.

If you are right, and police have brought charges against "these people"
then EITHER at least that one of the charges so brought has resulted in
a successful prosecution, in which case - given the significance of such
verdict(s) - it is unlikely that it would have escaped the attention of
every participant on this list ... particularly those that specialise in
computer and/or telecommunications evidence ... OR all such prosecutions
that have been brought have - for one reason or another - failed.

If the latter applies, then the appropriate departments of the relevant
forces need reinforcement with people having more appropriate skillsets.

Based on my own experiences with said departments, I prefer the view that
you were somehow - and for some unknown purpose - misled on this point.

One - speaking strictly in general terms - should bear in mind that the
use of NDAs can also be effective to prevent "sensitive" information from
being tested by submission to a somewhat more effective form of scrutiny!

-- 
Richard Cox