On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 11:27 PM, ianG <iang@iang.org> wrote:

... So what British Intelligence did was to switch gears and harass his operations to make them as difficult as possible. Instead of trying to necessarily stop the bombs, they pushed gear across that made bomb making risky, and aggressively clamped down on 'safe' gear where they could. In effect, making unstable explosives and detonators available, and controlling the market for the quality stuff.

So the bomb maker was forced into employing ever more risky techniques ...

This tactic of harassing the enemy to make mistakes more likely is rather well known. In war as in business. And it can and is applied to the media.

if you haven't observed this in the information security domain, you're not paying attention, of you're incompetent.