OurKingdom: Spyblog have made an offer to help anyone who wants to collect the belated offer of a £20,000 reward for the two missing CDs packed with information about us. They point out the government has not offered any immunity from prosecution. The urgency is underlined by another story they signalled thanks to Liberty and the Daily Telegraph:
the missing data discs are understood to contain both the real names and the new identities of up to 350 people who have had their identities changed after giving evidence against major criminals.
A senior police source said: "This is disastrous. People's lives could be in danger. It makes a mockery of the witness protection programme."
Here is their offer of help,
For the greater public good, Spy Blog now offers a free, "no questions asked" secure, anonymous channel of contact for anyone who might actually be in possession of the CDs, but who does not, for obvious reasons, want to contact the authorities or even the mainstream media, directly.
Please contact us via email: blog@spy[dot]org[dot]uk with or without the use of our PGP public encryption key or via the comment section of this blog if you know or suspect that you have the missing CDs in your possession.
There are a few obvious and not so obvious details about the CDs which we will ask for, simply to to weed out hoaxes.
If you are in possession of the CDs, or even if you are willing to reveal more of the background story to this scandal, then you might also wish to read our hints and tips for whistleblowers article, which will be relevant if you wish to remain anonymous.
We do not want a share of the reward, we only want to reduce the data security and privacy risk to the public (including our own families and friends), although we suspect that the chances of this happening are very slim.
