I was listening to the "Unexplained with Howard Hughes" podcast yesterday, and he was speaking to a chap called Mike Godfrey from a company called Insinia about hacking and cyber threats. And he mentioned, briefly, how everyone thinks the Met work closely with GCHQ on certain threats when in actual fact GCHQ can't trust the Met with any information in fear of them losing it. Aparently there's a track record with the Met and such things.
This chimed with something an uncle of mine (since departed) said to my Dad some years ago. My uncle worked building devices that could detect whether or not a room was bugged and where abouts in the room it was located. He had offers from America for the device, but nothing from the UK. And he said that the British police are always several steps behind everyone else (especially the Americans) in terms of technology to help solve crimes etc. He said that about 15 years ago, and nothing since has proven him wrong.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
