Tai Posted November 24, 2002 Share Posted November 24, 2002 hehe.. saw this over at the Sunday Times newspaper site... (need to reg for free to see this page)... link at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20...-490703,00.html seems that the Brits need better computers in their foreign office...& less secrecy when things don't work... heh.. when our pcs crash we post on neowin... dun keep it secret ! :p :p "British secrets put out on web" A WEBSITE in America has published three secret Foreign Office memos which name senior intelligence officials and list their job titles and telephone numbers. One was for Sir David Manning, the prime minister?s most senior foreign policy adviser and the next ambassador to the United States. Last night an inquiry was under way in Whitehall to determine how the memos, marked confidential or restricted, appeared on the site. An insider said: ?This is a serious breach of security. We want to know precisely how it leaked.? Security officials will be no less embarrassed by the content of the memos, one of which refers to the failures of an internal threat assessment system which did not warn of a terrorist threat to the British embassy in Brussels. The website, which the government has asked The Sunday Times not to name, gives no clue as to how it obtained the documents. It simply says: ?Thanks to A, who writes: ?Some stuff that might prove interesting . . . ? ? The first memo, dated January 15, 2000, and marked Confidential ? UK Eyes Only, contains the minutes of Whitehall?s private military companies group, and discusses government policy towards mercenary organisations. It lists 15 civil servants at a meeting, including members of the security service (MI5), the anti-terrorist operations branch of the Metropolitan police special branch, GCHQ, Customs and Excise and the Foreign Office. The document details all the participants? job titles and telephone and fax numbers. The second memo, dated September 2000 and sent by the head of Whitehall?s counter-terrorism policy department to Manning, refers to the difficulties the Foreign Office was having with Fortress, a new computerised system for distributing intelligence around Whitehall. It also reveals that these problems meant delays in terror warnings to missions overseas, such as notice of a threatened attack on the British embassy in Brussels. A third note complains that Fortress ?is a pig? and the writer did not receive material he ought to have seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoLdFuSi0n Posted November 24, 2002 Share Posted November 24, 2002 ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electronic Punk Posted November 24, 2002 Share Posted November 24, 2002 Can tell you that the ministry of defense do not have external links to there network, the only way of exporting data is via a cd writer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwarren Veteran Posted November 24, 2002 Veteran Share Posted November 24, 2002 Bit dodgy :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john smith 1924 Veteran Posted November 24, 2002 Veteran Share Posted November 24, 2002 www.cryptome.org nothing there of course....:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROGAME Posted November 24, 2002 Share Posted November 24, 2002 LOL :D simple search on google and i found it took only a few seconds maybe i can sell it to iraq or something (kidding) google is so great... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john smith 1924 Veteran Posted November 24, 2002 Veteran Share Posted November 24, 2002 ah welll cryptome has got some wacky stuff on it- there was a great site i found a while back which had loads of weird us govt documents on it aswell - if i find it will post it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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