[mjwalshe]

Or alternativly the Met did not learn the lessons from 15 years ago when they left the default passwords enabled on their main switch.

Huge bills where run up by phone preaks dialing in and then out again - I even got asked to post to alt.2600 as BT's official spokesman (the Met where claiming it was our fault) but BT Security stooped that.

worrying after the NI revelations I do wonder if its time for the UK to have a proper FBI style police force for serious crimes (and the Grunt end of CT work) and demote the Met to the same level as any other constabulary

[rmc]

This "default passwords on phone switches" is still a problem and common attack. Mostly because there's money in it. If you can route all your international calls through someone elses switch then you can save a fortune.

[mjwalshe]

Looks like I was to hard on the MET in this case as more news has come out it looks like the FBI was the source of the break.