Menwith Hill?

[EESDL]

No not 'Men in Black' but Menwith Hill........
Open/insecure forum etc but has anybody a general idea what the Yanks are doing there?
Just bought a house in the area and expecting the local to be full of Yanks.........

[Gainesy]

http://www.fas.org/irp/facility/menwith.htm

Federation of American Scientists, open source; basically its a SigInt place.

[tony draper]

Got a nice cuppa tea off the ladies camped outside there once.

[DeepC]

If media is correct.... they are listening in to sensitive commercial communications for the benefit of corporate America.

Probably partially true but since 9/11 and the criticism of the US Int community they are probably working 99% on tracking threats to the US.

Very controversial installation.

[EESDL]

Thanks, guess I won't be asking too many questions then!

[rivetjoint]

It keeps a lot of local people in jobs.

[solotk]

.....and they can always guarantee never to get an engaged tone

[DamienB]

And provided possibly the funniest ever Mark Thomas vs MoD skit ever.

http://www.cewap.co.uk/menwithhillto...thhill.com.htm

[canberra]

menwith

menwith hill monitors all uk phones/faxes emails etc on behalf of the british government. hands up all those who thought gchq did it? gchq are forbidden by law to eavesdrop in the uk so menwith hill kindly carries it out for them.

[ORAC]

Fairs fair, GCHQ supposedly does it for the USA since the NSA/CIA are forbidden to do it there. Sort of a "you scratch my back and I'll scratch your's" arrangement.

[sangiovese.]

Great, so now I've looked at that website link, they'll probably look in my computer! Good job I've deleted all the Frankie Vaughan.

Oh, bomb president satellite terrorist kill sheepsh@gging banana whilst I'm here

[infsys]

One thing is for sure, they will be watching this like hawks.

[Jackonicko]

Do self censor steeplebush, old boy, cos this is interesting enough not to want it to be Pruned!

Gratuitous offensive 'joke' coming up....

Anyone else wonder why we elected someone who can't even get the hang of a packet of rubbers?

[BEagle]

You mean that YOU'RE one of the fools that voted him in?

Semtex, kalashnikov, Saddam.....good morning spooks!

[Whipping Boy's SATCO]

Jackonicko, you have assumed a monogomous relationship?

[Jackonicko]

Had very interesting pub-chat as to who the father might be (restricting ourselves to MPs) if not Blair. Favourite had to be Blunkett - probability wise, though many hoped that it would turn out to have been Boateng.

But not many people have sufficient lack of taste and sympathy to engage in such inane drivel even when pissed.....

Good job Menwith don't have a bug in the King Billy, however.....

[Mad_Mark]

If such a system exists (which it almost certainly does), do you not think that by writing posts that include possible keywords you are causing a bigger workload for the analysts? I am sure they probably have far more important things to be doing for the good of the free world at the moment than having to check posts and mails from spoofers - like snooping for extramarital relationships by members of the Royal Family.

No? Oh well.

MadMark!!!

[Arkroyal]

Fancy putting the poor blighters in Yorkshire. One county where they will be unable to find a decent pint of ale, even if they do fill EESDL's local.

Must have been Blinkett. He's the only blind man in the gevernment!

[Jackonicko]

Whoever the guilty man was, with teeth like that we can only hope (for humanitarian reasons) that oral sex wasn't on the menu......

[BEagle]

Jacko, why did you want 'STEEPLEBUSH' censored? It appears on one of the posted weirdo-links!

AK47....CIA....Diana....Aurora....Area 51....NRO....Marilyn Monroe.... Evening, Spooks.