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MI5’s Cyber Failures – A Clear & Present Danger to National Security!
Recent revelations that MI5 knowingly misled three courts and the UK’s judicial system expose a far deeper and concerning issue: the UK’s intelligence agencies belief they are above the law.
The timing of this exposure suggests a controlled disclosure rather than genuine transparency.
Disturbingly, evidence now emerges that MI5’s critical servers were commandeered on October 1, 2022, redirecting to Shahr in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This was not just an operational blunder; it was a catastrophic failure of National Security.”
Further damning real-time evidence shows that MI5’s DNS servers remain insecure and compromised, while their U.S. counterparts, in contrast, have strengthened Cybersecurity in response to CISA’s 2019 Emergency Directive M-19-01.
This raises the question: why has MI5 failed to take the same security precautions?
Once a global leader in encryption, with the likes of Alan Turing pioneering Cybersecurity, the UK now appears to be in digital freefall, leaving critical infrastructure wide open to exploitation.
The consequences of this negligence are severe – potentially catastrophic.
The UK has suffers relentless cyberattacks, with compromised Internet assets making the nation completely exposed and vulnerable. Instead of addressing these issues, MI5 and its peers perpetuate a cycle of cover-ups, reminiscent of past scandals—the nuclear testing fiasco, the contaminated blood scandal, and the Post Office fraud debacle.
Each time, taxpayers bear the financial and security burdens of these failures.
The exposure of MI5’s operational recklessness is a stark reminder: these agencies, while claiming to defend national security, are actively endangering it.
An independent investigation is imperative—but history suggests that once again, the truth will be buried beneath bureaucratic denials and sanitized apologies.