MI5 e-mail alert fuckup - all the gory details of their incompetence

Lord Patel has already alerted readers to the apparent FU about the launch of the MI5 non existent e-mail "Terrist Alert" service.

Well savvier minds were alert and on the case, and have exposed what a botched, fucking rush job the whole thing was - resulting in subscribers to the service having their unprotected personal details / e-mail address whizzed about the electronic universe to a commercial site set up for marketing companies by Mailtrack Limited 4th Floor, King House,5-11 Westbourne Grove, London to US based servers operated by Level 3 Communications, Inc. 1025 Eldorado Blvd. Broomfield Colorado .. just north of Denver - learn more about the wonderful people of Broomfield here.

Mailtrack " ...Mailtrack delivers on the full promise of digital marketing - utilising all aspects of digital communications, the latest software," .... can now add MI5 to their list of users including Tesco, Dixons, First Direct ...

Go to the excellent Spyblog " MI5 e-mail alert signup shambles - all email subscription web forms sent to the USA, without encryption"- for all the gory technical details and some serious questions about the way UK Secret Services handle yourpersonal informatiom in a very unsecret fashion.... and don't try and subscribe as Duke of Edinburgh, he already has.

With Thanks to the industrious, well informed IanP for waking up Lord Patel's sleeping technical department about this. See his re-posting of Google Earth pics of Darfur posting if you see nothing else today. Stunning.

Secret Police ? .... evidently cast as the Keystone Kops.