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- From: ucacgcj@ucl.ac.uk (Gordon C Joly)
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- Subject: Re: Camilla-gate
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.115131.19190@ucl.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 11:51:31 GMT
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- >One of the amazing things revealed in Peter Wright's book about MI5
- >was how technically ignorant MI5 was/is. They like to leave the
- >technical stuff to "back-room boffins", often external consultants.
- >They have very little expertise of their own. Witness the nonsense
- >that so-called security experts have been feeding the papers
- >concerning the possibilities of picking up mobile phone conversations.
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- You can believe every in peter Wright's book. The first silly error
- wqhen he describes where his office is. In fact, he did not work in
- the canteen (which is really what is on the sixth floor of 140 Gower
- Street)
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- >I blame the public school system :-)
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- Now we have the "old girl" network?
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- >--
- >Chris Malcolm cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh +44 (0)31 650 3085
- >Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
- >5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK DoD #205
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- Stella R wears "thick stockings" (Pass Notes, The Guardian).
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- Gorod,
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