My colleague in the Security Group at Cambridge (David Chisnall) recently sent around a link to an article highlighting some of the historic failings of MI5.
The description of the internment of Iraqi students at the start of the first Gulf war, jogged my memory about a rather bizarre experience I had when doing work experience at Warwick University around this time.
Whilst physical security measures are the sole responsible of the home owner, service providers on the Web frequently impose unworkable security mechanisms on their users. Here’s one cautionary tale of how this goes bad even for a security researcher.
