Mr Morgan said a working group, including representatives from Virgin Trains, Network Rail, the British Transport Police and the Welsh Assembly Government, had been formed to look into the problems.

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Somewhat more cheering was the failure of a proposal to reinforce the law so that the building of any network whatsoever would be within the craft guilds' reach (a working group of deputies is looking for a compromise).

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Network forensics can certainly show what is happening in a small group of people working on a top-secret product.

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