see also: "Reliability of security systems" http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/#Reliability
=JeffH From: Ross Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Newsnight tonight To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:19:24 +0100 We helped make a piece on ATM fraud a few weeks ago for Newsnight, pointing out that law enforcement on bank fraud is now deeply corrupt. The Home Office did a deal with the banks so that fraud victims must report the crime to the bank, not the police; the City force's card squad is a tied cottage (as Nick put it) as the banks pays its bills; ditto the Met's e-crime squad; ditto the Financial services ombudsman. This is jolly nice for the banks when the fraud is done by a bent insider they don't want exposed, and jolly nasty for the poor customer. It's also jolly nice for terrorists such as the Tamil Tigers who use ATM fraud to raise money to finance murder and mayhem. It's really wonderful for government spin doctors as fraud figures have fallen to near zero. I'm now told that the programme will run tonight. Unfortunately a lot of its teeth have been drawn (below) Ross ** Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:09:10 BST To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: *** @bbc.co.uk> Subject: newsnight Just to let you know. The piece will run tonight. Sadly we could only include a small part of your magnificent contribution, so the angle about the tamil tigers was dropped, against my wishes. The banks spokesman is coming on afterwards. The Home Office and ACPO both refused to appear. Regards *** ---------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]