The folks at SpyBlog are less than impressed by the email alert system I mentioned a few days ago:

Astonishingly, MI5, the Security Service, part of whose remit is supposed to be giving protection advice against electronic attacks over the internet, is sending all our personal details (forename, surname and email address) unencrypted to commercial third party e-mail marketing and tracking companies which are physically and legally in the jurisdiction of the United States of America, and is even not bothering to make use of the SSL / TLS encrypted web forms and processing scripts which are already available to them.

I’m still curious who could possibly want an alert “level” sent to their phone and how they would know it’s really MI5 writing them?