The British on intelligence: a collection (SIS, MI5, GCHQ & more)

[davidbfpo]

A UK GCHQ document led to this response by Professor Thomas Rid, Kings War Studies, on Twitter:

One of the single most insightful documents leaked since 2013

It appears that a BoingBoing story is the original source and catalyst:http://boingboing.net/2016/02/02/dox...herlock-3.html I only have a vague memory about this online publication and it is clearly not impartial.

Link to the September 2011 GCHQ document (65 pgs) written by an unknown academic whose Bristol University research "think tank" (HIMR) does work for them:https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...-Redacted.html

A second GCHQ document, March 2010 (3pgs) sets out 'What is the worst that can happen':https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...arch-2010.html

Looking for a short explanation by an outsider? Here it is by a UCL 'security and privacy engineering' academic; his bio:http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Danezis/

He writes:

....the document presents one of the clearest explanations of GCHQ’s operations and their scale at the time; as well as a very interesting list of open problems, along with salient examples. Overall, reading this document very much resembles reading the needs of any other organization with big-data, struggling to process it to get any value.

Link:https://conspicuouschatter.wordpress...-problem-book/