How information is protected

[David Hansen]

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2856892.ece outlines how 
"well" those inside the tent protect information about us. Not at all.

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 Database of top-secret police phone taps stolen
By Ruth Elkins
Published: 12 August 2007

Police chiefs have launched a major investigation after the theft of a 
computer database containing thousands of top-secret mobile phone 
records from terrorism and organised crime investigations.

Scotland Yard is concerned that crucial evidence from undercover 
investigations could be lost forever or has found its way into "the 
wrong hands" after the computer and other IT equipment disappeared from 
a private firm in Sevenoaks, Kent, last Monday night after a break-in.

Forensic Telecommunications Services, whose clients include Scotland 
Yard, The Police Service of Northern Ireland, HM Revenue and Customs 
and the Crown Prosecution Service, specialises in tapping mobile phone 
calls made by criminal suspects. The stolen security-protected server 
contained the minutiae of phone calls it had screened, including the 
identity of the person who had made the call, as well as the exact time 
and location of the suspect when the call was made.

In a statement released to The Mail on Sunday, Forensic 
Telecommunications Services confirmed that the equipment had been 
stolen from its offices but denied that its disappearance would impact 
negatively on current police cases.

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See also the Wail on Sunday 
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_arti
cle_id=474788&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

However, if the information stolen is as the article states then there 
would be no problem in victims being told their data had been rummaged 
around in by the police and other bods. It is always good to get 
further evidence that backs up my opinions. Undoubtedly the only reason 
those inside the tent don't want victims to be told is that the victims 
might then ask awkward questions.


 


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents 
me   
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54