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Olympics 'biggest security challenge since WW2'

The Olympics represent the greatest challenge to Britain's security since the Second World War the security minister Lord West has said.

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UK & World News: London 2012 Olympics will be greatest threat to UK security since World War II, says minister

THE London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics are the "greatest security challenge" Britain has faced since the Second World War, Home Office minister Lord West warned today.

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Terrorism Chiefs Don't Know What They've Censored Online

Police are shutting websites without keeping any records, hampering government efforts to address online extremism, it's been revealed. The Terrorism Act 2006 granted powers for police to compel web hosts to shut down websites promoting terrorism. But the powers have never been used, and forces have instead persuaded providers to take down websites voluntarily, according to the security minister Lord...

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London 2012 Olympics receives £39m Airwave boost

Parliamentary reporter, Computing , Monday 2 November 2009 at 12:55:00 Extra capacity for emergency services radio system will ensure readiness for Games The Home Office is spending £39m to boost the capacity of the Airwave radio system to enable emergency services to cope with the 2012 Olympics and a major incident while maintaining "business as usual" services in and around London....

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Gaffe undermines general's appointment

Appointment is paving the way for Dannatt to serve as a defence minister after the election General Sir Richard Dannatt, the former head of the army who repeatedly clashed with ministers over troop levels and equipment in Afghanistan, is to join the Conservatives as a military adviser. David Cameron will announce in his closing speech to the Tory conference tomorrow that Dannatt will become a working...

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The historically unprecedented nature of Dannatt's enlistment

General Sir Richard Dannatt's enlistment in the Tory defence team, on the day after he left the Army is an unprecedented event. It's also one that makes a great many people uncomfortable. In terms of precedent, or the lack of it, there is a recent one and a historical one, but neither quite matches these circumstances. Admiral Sir Alan West, formerly head of the Royal Navy, was appointed by Prime...

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Hacking News – Secret Teen Aacker Army Ridiculed

The UK government’s reported decision to employ ex-hackers to work at a newly-established Cyber Security Operations Centre have met with derision from both a high-profile former hacker and an acknowledged cybersecurity expert. Lord West, the Home Office security minister, first suggested that former hackers (or “naughty boys”, as he described them) might [...]

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Hacking News – Secret Teen Hacker Army Ridiculed

The UK government’s reported decision to employ ex-hackers to work at a newly-established Cyber Security Operations Centre have met with derision from both a high-profile former hacker and an acknowledged cybersecurity expert. Lord West, the Home Office security minister, first suggested that former hackers (or “naughty boys”, as he described them) might [...]

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Purnell urges more unelected ministers

Former work and pensions secretary says a wider range of candidates needs to be encouraged to enter politics More ministers should be drafted in from outside politics, former work and pensions secretary James Purnell says today. Writing in the special Labour party edition of Progress magazine, Purnell says that a wider range of candidates needs to be encouraged to enter politics, and suggests ministers...

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There's Concern, but Where's the Action?

Earlier this year, President Obama said that "the nation's digital infrastructure is under near constant attack." That statement came on the heels of the head of the Pentagon's Strategic Command warning Congress that the United States is vulnerable to cyber attacks "across the spectrum." In mid-January of this year, outgoing National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell said that...

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MCNULTY WATCH: Yet another sighting

Lobbydog is calling on all readers to let this blog know when they see Tony McNulty pop up giving interviews for the Government. The former minister, shamed due to his expense claims, has been on Sky, was on Newsnight yesterday and featured on the radio this morning towing party line. The only thing I can think of is that the Government believes his position, or lack of it, will mean they have plausible...

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A Well Argued Piece

I know that a vast majority of Daily(ish) Millbrook readers let out a groan when I start doing the political stuff, but I'll keep going anyway. Go on - it's not a long article, and it's well worth reading... This new article, reproduced here in full from http://www.politics.co.uk/ is by a research scholar at The International Security Program, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and...

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Government asks for terrorist tech help

The government, cap in hand, is asking for help from all corners of the technology industry in the UK with its fight against terror. This comes after it published its three-year Science and Technology Counter Terrorism Strategy document, which outlines just how science and tech can aid in stopping terrorist threats. Actively inviting The three main ideas that the strategy outlines are: understand...

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Government calls for help on countering terrorist technology

Tom Young, Computing , Friday 14 August 2009 at 10:54:00 Industry and academia asked to get in touch with ideas to help counter terrorism The government is asking experts from the technology industry and academia to come up with ideas to help fight terrorism. The move comes as the government publishes its Science and Technology Counter Terrorism Strategy today. The internet has facilitated easier...

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Letters: No equivalence in extradition treaty

Lord West's brave but vain effort to find equivalence between the standards of proof required in the United Kingdom and the United States when seeking extradition from each other should not go unchallenged ( Letters , 12 August). If, as he says, it all comes down to the difference between "suspicion" and "belief", he cannot legitimately claim that these are "broadly comparable"....