Posted by on under jsp 440, simy, carelessness, page document, ministry of defence, leaks, embarrassment, spies, uk government, hackers, protocols, protocol, acts, intelligence | 
samzenpus writes "A restricted 2,400 page-document put out by the MoD designed to help intelligence personnel with information security has been leaked onto the internet. Wikileaks notes that Joint Services Protocol 440 (JSP 440), was published in 2001 and lays out protocols to defend against hackers, journalists, and foreign spies. it says, 'Leaks usually take the form of reports in the public media which appear to involve the unauthorized disclosure of official information (whether protectively marked or not) that causes political harm or embarrassment to either the UK Government or the Department concerned⦠The threat [of leakage] is less likely to arise from positive acts of counter-espionage, than from leakage of information through disaffected members of staff, or as a result of the attentions of an investigative journalist, or simply by accident or carelessness.' " looks like it's time to write JSP 441.
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Posted by on under anti piracy, uk government, legislation |
Cheered on by the music industry, the UK government is desperately trying to tackle the issue of online piracy.
Tagi: anti piracy, uk government, legislation
Posted by on under new statesman, slashdot, uk gov, minter, behest, tweet, police state, digital tv, uk government, magna, scrutiny, peoe, ace, parliament, freedom |
Firefalcon writes "The UK Government launched Thursday the 'Your Freedom' website, headed by the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, to 'identify laws that should be repealed.' In a recent tweet, Police State UK pointed out an article in the New Statesman which appeals for people to call on the Government to repeal the ill thought-out Digital Economy Act that was rushed through Parliament without sufficient scrutiny. While part of the Act is regarding the digital TV switchover, other sections allow for users to be restricted or disconnected from the Internet at the behest of copyright owners, which goes against the principle of 'innocent until proven guilty' that has been in place since the Magna Carta."
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Posted by on under scientific american, lunchtime, uk government, clifford, algorithm, cocks, encryption, stanford, 1970s, pioneer |
nk497 writes "Clifford Cocks is one of three British men who developed an encryption system while working for the UK Government in the early 1970s, but was forced to keep the innovation quiet for national security reasons. Just a few years later, their Public Encryption Key was developed separately by US researchers at Stanford and MIT, and eventually evolved into the RSA encryption algorithm, which now secures billions of transactions on the internet every day. 'The first I knew about [the US discovery] was when I read about it in Scientific American. I opened it one lunchtime and saw a description and thought "Ah, that's what we did",' he said. 'You don't go into the business to get external credit and recognition - quite the opposite. Quite honestly, the main reaction was one of complete surprise that this had actually been discovered outside.' The UK trio have now won recognition for their accomplishment in the form of the Milestone Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers."
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