A public service announcement

Man in a Shed has just received this in his inbox for his company and would like to share its contents with the government and public sector.

Though its is correctly pointed out on the register that such data should never be committed to CD anyway !

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What's odd about the alleged China army hacks is ...

What's odd about the China army hacks is how wide spread they are reported to be.

As part of a long running intelligence rivalry I would have thought that keeping vulnerabilities in you opponents IT infrastructure quiet, in your back pocket so to speak, would be the way to go. These alleged hacks have been wide spread involving computers in the US, Germany and now the UK.

Now unless some sort of action is imminent which relies on data from such an obvious trawl - invasion of Taiwan for example - then all it does is get everyone to beef up their security so when you need to get into their computer systems it would no longer be possible.

It would in fact be a stupid thing to do; unless something was just about to happen. ( Perhaps the FCO being targeted points towards that.)

Or its not the Chinese peoples army at all - but someone else ..... who also expects action shortly. Iran perhaps, maybe Israel ? Something is cooking.

(The people carrying out the hacks may be in China -but it does not necessarily follow that its the Chinese government's work.)

Gordon Brown announces Conservative policies on security

He's making a statement in the house right now. His announcement includes:

Unified border forced
A review of using telephone intercept information
Post charge questioning

He's pushing the extra detention argument again - but just quotes from Lord Carlyle. Bring us the evidence Gordon - and we might listen to you. Personally I think this is the wedge issue he';s using for party political purposes to gain advantage.

Personally I'm not that bothered with him taking Conservative policies in this area as they were based on common sense not political philosophy. Though he might say thank you ( maybe that's why he's wearing a blue tie. )

There's much more to this announcement - it will take some digesting no doubt. With Gordon Brown its not what he announces - but what's in the small print you need to watch.

He just suggested sponsoring English speaking Imans - so the Church of England is out, Islam is getting state funding. Right....

PS David Cameron good at PMQ - but its a sticky wicket when there are a number of easy quotes for GB to throw back at him.

Update:

David Cameron's answer is very effective and detailed. He sounds authoritative and has a comprehensive grasp of the details. He's just having a go at the European Charter of human rights right now. He's just asking Gordon Brown to thank his party for all the policies that he's adopted from the Conservatives - nice. Will Gordon say thank you ?