MI5 - email alert system announced and will be up and running - er.... real soon now
MI5 chief Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller the soon to be ex-head of spy chasers MI5 has paused from "tracking at least 30 terror plots against the UK" (BBC)to announce a dramatic step change in the handling of spreading fear and alarm alerts.
The Home Office has a long-planned programme of reaching out to the public and keeping it better informed about the terrorist threats as they keep unravelling and so you can get fear fed straight to your e-mail in box direct from the Fear Factory... and look out for Text Messages of fear ...coming shortly.
Simply log on to the MI5 website and ask for either the level of the terror threat to the UK as assessed by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre...or subscribe to That's New, a digest of the latest information from MI5, including speeches made by the director general and links to relevant websites.... There is however a slight glitch as no one has told anybody running the MI5 website of this brave bold new initiative - there is no information about this astounding new service (as advertised) and a search on e-mail alert yields no answer.
Regular readers of Lord Patel's already will be familiar with the, simple, proven, in house and far superior MI5 Critical alarm feature - set at permanently CRITICAL ... although an in house top technical team of terrists apply a unique modifying factor ... Possibly , Maybe, Almost Certain.etc., which we feel is ..er... well more user friendly. WE don't want to frighten anyone...do we ?
Meanwhile wait for those crack technicians to put something on the website that matches what the public announcements say.... so much for the long term planning at the Home Office.
Dontcha just love it...the website where you can find the current state of alert is www.intelligence.gov.uk
NB If you are one of the gangs of terrists planning one of these 30 plots to bring on Armagedson can you just slow things down until we get this system working ? Thanks.
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MI5, the Security Service, part of whose remit is supposed to be giving protection advice against electronic attacks over the internet, is sending all our personal details (forename, surname and email address) unencrypted to commercial third party e-mail marketing and tracking companies which physically and legally in the jurisdiction of the United States of America, and is even not bothering to make use of the SSL/TLS encrypted web forms and processing scripts which are already available to them.
http://thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk/blog/_archives/2007/1/10/2637047.html
Lord Patel, I am sure you noticed the classic news management technique of the synchronized Mi5 information release of news that:
1) The Mi5 head told senior MPs (on the morning of 6th July 2005) that there was no imminent terrorist threat to London or the rest of the country less than 24 hours before the events in London on July 7th 2005.
2) Mi5 had Mohammad Sidique Khan, and fellow accused Shehzad Tanweer under surveillance (& had audio & video recordings of at least Khan) around the time of 'Operation Crevice'. [The 'Crevice' trial is currently ingoing (you would never have guessed, scanning the news) and there are hints of more juicy revelations re Mi5 prior contact with those accused of the 7/7 events.]
3) Mi5 announce their (not yet working)'e-mail terror alert system'
Guess which of 1), 2) or 3) above, the news media picked up on?
RELEASE THE EVIDENCE
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