NEW SECURITY LEARNING

by Harold Elletson

Corruption, in its many forms, remains one of the most significant obstacles to progress in the modern world, just as it has throughout much of human history.

by Dr Harold Elletson

In a front page story on April 18th, Britain’s Daily Telegraph revealed that three Government departments had inadvertently published “sensitive” information on the Internet. A technical error meant that blacked-out parts of various reports by at least three Government departments could be read by copying and pasting their contents into another document. Details published included an analysis of how the Royal Navy would cope with a catastrophic incident. As the Ministry of Defence started a review of dozens of documents, amidst concern over the accidental disclosure of military secrets, it was clear that Whitehall officials were responsible for the blunder, raising questions over both their competence and the training they had received.