Re:Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom
by da_n on Friday September 20, 2013 @08:48AM
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There is a gag order on the media against any reporting of GCHQ. Ministry of Truth is in full effect in the UK right now.
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Re:Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom
by tombrossman on Friday September 20, 2013 @09:08AM
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Not disputing that there is some 'voluntary' suppression of facts by the media but a quick search of BBC news shows 5 stories in the last 10 days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=GCHQ
Re:Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom
by eliot_sykes on Friday September 20, 2013 @09:16AM
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In the UK, we aren't having any real public debate about the security services, largely because the homegrown news organisations aren't giving the issues the attention they deserve. I don't know what would happen to them if they took a stand against a D-Notice.
(BTW, the 2nd result on that BBC news search is more like a job ad for GCHQ)
(Edited to remove my erroneous claim that D-notices aren't voluntary, turns out they are, though hardly any media orgs. go against them)
Re:Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom
by da_n on Friday September 20, 2013 @01:21PM
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Guess I should have been more specific, it is an official D-Notice by the MOD relating to Tempura:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-m...