Newsnight tonight

[Owen Lewis]

Thanks Ross. One of the very few occasions I regret not having TV. I'll have
to pick it up in te press report tomorrow -unless they've given you a
recording ;-)

Best,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk]On Behalf Of Ross Anderson
> Sent: 20 June 2007 18:19
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Newsnight tonight
>
>
> We helped make a piece on ATM fraud a few weeks ago for
> Newsnight, pointing
> out that law enforcement on bank fraud is now deeply corrupt. The
> Home Office
> did a deal with the banks so that fraud victims must report the
> crime to the
> bank, not the police; the City force's card squad is a tied
> cottage (as Nick
> put it) as the banks pays its bills; ditto the Met's e-crime squad; ditto
> the Financial services ombudsman. This is jolly nice for the
> banks when the
> fraud is done by a bent insider they don't want exposed, and
> jolly nasty for
> the poor customer. It's also jolly nice for terrorists such as
> the Tamil
> Tigers who use ATM fraud to raise money to finance murder and mayhem. It's
> really wonderful for government spin doctors as fraud figures
> have fallen to
> near zero.
>
> I'm now told that the programme will run tonight. Unfortunately a
> lot of its
> teeth have been drawn (below)
>
> Ross
>
> **
>
> Date:    Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:09:10 BST
> To:      <Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
> From:    *** @bbc.co.uk>
> Subject: newsnight
>
> Just to let you know. The piece will run tonight. Sadly  we could only
> include a small part of your magnificent contribution, so the angle
> about the tamil tigers was dropped,  against my wishes.
> The banks spokesman is coming on afterwards. The Home Office  and ACPO
> both refused to appear.
>
> Regards
>
> ***
>
>
>
>