International Law

Security Service MI5 website survey

The Security Service MI5 website has a new user survey online, asking or feedback on the current, quite well designed, but rather limited. in terms of useful information, website.

The survey does not ask for any personal details, but it does nag a bit, with most of the Questions being Required ones. the survey does promise anonymity and confidentiality, but MI5 are not the only people who might be interested in tracking or tracing the people who choose to fill in this survey.

The professionally paranoid amongst you may wish to use Tor or other proxy servers, someone else's WiFi access point etc. and to remove your cookies, fake your web browser user_agent string etc.and make sure that you do not use the SSL version of the website, if you want to keep your real IP address and some other details private (unless it is more important to you to hide your browsing details from your local systems administrators or ISPs, than it is from MI5).

http://www.mi5.gov.uk/survey/

There is a Captcha to reduce spam, but how this Government website survey complies with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 is a mystery - perhaps they need to read the PAS78: 2006 Publicly Available Specification Guide to Good Practice in Commissioning Accessible Websites (.pdf) produced by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

The MI5 website could really do with some Syndication feeds, (RSS 2.0 / Atom) like millions of blogs, including this one have, and like the FBI.gov website has had for several years, especially for the What's New section and the Terrorism Threat Alert Status.

Full post as published by Spy Blog on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).