ADVERTISEMENT The boy visited Orton at his Gloucester address. On the first occasion another young boy, younger than him, was staying at Orton s home.
The visitor was in the spare room and he heard sexual noises coming from the next door bedroom. He later witnessed money being exchanged before the boy left Orton s home. On another occasion the boy had his pants pulled down by Orton and had his private parts touched by him.
Orton s next victim was a teenage singer with a troubled home life who had performed with a band in the area.
Smyth told the jury: This victim described Orton as being a sugar daddy as he bought him many things, including a guitar over a period of time.
Fiendishly difficult puzzle on GCHQ Christmas card leaves Brits scratching their heads
Britain s spy agency has sent out a festive puzzle leaving people frustrated as they struggle to solve the Christmas-related problem to reveal a hidden message (Image: GCHQ)
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The Lawfare Podcast: Government Agencies that Really Listen To You: SIGINT in the UK
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has been conducting and regulating signals intelligence, SIGINT, since before the United States was born. To talk about how they do it across the pond, David Kris sat down with two experts on UK SIGINT and SIGINT regulation: Michael Drury and Tony Comer, both veterans of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British counterpart to the U.S. s National Security Agency. Michael was GCHQ s first full-time legal advisor from 1996 to 2010, when he joined the private sector, and Tony was GCHQ s historian until his retirement earlier this year. They compared and contrasted the U.S. and UK experience with SIGINT, SIGINT regulation, popular support for SIGINT and intelligence in general, and also some cutting-edge issues, including how SIGINT works today, synergies between SIGINT and cyber, GDPR encryption and online harms.
It is thought the operation began in March but confirmation the UK was targeted only came yesterday.
A Whitehall source told The Times: There has been a hugely sophisticated cyber espionage operation likely to have been committed by a very sophisticated state actor.
It comes after Boris Johnson announced a £1.5billion cyberforce to take down enemy computer systems and hack into enemy air defences to protect our warplanes.
It is thought the operation began in March but confirmation the UK was targeted only came yesterday (file image of GCHQ)
The Russian hackers corrupted management software from SolarWinds, a computer network based in Texas, in an effort to unlock networks.