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Aldrich, Richard J. and Work, J. D. (2023) Project spaceman : early British computer security and automatic data processing. Intelligence and National Security, 38 (4). pp. 525-537. doi:10.1080/02684527.2022.2139342 ISSN 0268-4527.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2022.2139342
Abstract
Much has been written about the prehistory of ‘cyber’ and computer security in the United States, but we know less about other countries. This essay seeks to examine early British efforts in this field and especially attacks by ‘Tiger Teams’ against ICL mainframe computers that were being deployed by MI5 and other agencies. Over 2 years, a sophisticated programme was completed. It argues that a severe expertise shortage ensured a degree of convergence and later outsourcing to ICL. This pioneering work also paved the way for ‘Project Spaceman’ which offered government highly secure options together with encryption in the mid-1980s.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Intelligence and National Security | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0268-4527 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 38 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 525-537 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/02684527.2022.2139342 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 October 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 November 2022 | ||||||||
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