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 15.6.2000 Security:  Criminal computer codes will be cracked by New MI5 unit
 A SPECIAL codebreaking organisation is to be set up inside the headquarters of MI5 to crack encrypted communications and computer discs belonging to suspected organised criminals and terrorists.

En français: Les codes informatique crimminel seront "craqués" par une nouvelle unité du MI5
 Une organisation spéciale sera mise sur pied au quartier général du MI5 pour casser les codes des communications encyptées ainsi queles disques appartenant des crimminels et des terroristes

 
English version
The new centre, which will begin to recruit expert codebreakers soon, will cost about £25 million over the next few years, and has already been budgeted for by the Home Office.
Résumé en français
Le nouveau centre situé à Londres va bientôt recruter des "casseurs" de code. CVela coûtera environ 25 million de Livres pour les prochaines années.

In cases where it was not possible to obtain the keys to the codes, the staff at the centre would be expected to try to break the codes, the Home Office official said. "They will need to be talented codebreakers," the official added.

The recruited experts will have to be given the highest level of security clearance.

Although MI5 is obliged to seek a warrant for covert intrusive investigative techniques under existing procedures, these methods are not covered by any statutory control.

 
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