MI5 inspector's website shut down after security blunder
The security blunder forced the Intelligence Services Commissioner, Sir Mark Waller, and the Interception of Communications Commissioner, Sir Paul Kennedy, to pull the plug on their new website on Friday afternoon following enquiries by The Telegraph.
Every page contained an “edit” link that allowed anyone visiting the website to change any text and upload files. After it was shut down a secure version was published at a new address.
A spokesman for the Commissioners said that the website contained no sensitive material and was not linked to other systems. He denied the official website was freely-editable as the result of an error and said it had been part of a “transparency drive” to allow interested parties to comment on the development. He said that such practice was not unusual.
