MI5 and Police search for hacker in North Finchley.

Security Forces Patrol the North Circular Road.

Last Tuesday evening, North Finchley became host to an incident straight out of a spy novel when MI5 and armed police, supported by a top of the range, hi-tech, surveillance helicopter, were in pursuit of a teenager who, reports state, hacked into and disabled military grade security software in a computer, surveillance control vehicle and an unmanned military surveillance drone.
MI5 somehow managed to track down the hacker and confirm his presence in a North Finchley house occupied by students from Middlesex University. The suspect, Alister Cloud, 16, managed to detect the interception and escape.
Police later confirmed they received several calls from Finchley residents complaining about trespassers in their gardens.
Claire Bowlby, granddaughter of General Bowbly (retired) stated Alister Cloud must have found and disabled the military security app on her laptop when he offered to find out why it was working so slowly. Her parents, both army officers have since made a formal complaint about this intrusion of privacy.
Suzie Emerson and Claire Bowlby, students at the Finchley house, stated Alister has come to London from Glasgow in search of his missing mother, nano-scientist Professor Julia Cloud. Whether this is a cover, or if Alister really is searching for his mother is not known.
A spokesperson from ISOC, the Government Information Security Operations Centre, was unable to explain how a 16 year old somehow managed to evade roadblocks, a multi-million pound surveillance helicopter fully equipped with the latest  cameras and imaging technology and an undisclosed number of police and MI5 officers.
The spokesperson confirmed the hacks were high level and very sophisticated and suspect that intercept or jamming devices were used to 'disappear' the suspect from any visual or electronic detection.
They suspect Alister Cloud may have had help from the Situationists, a cyber-activist group. 
ISOC is asking companies and government departments  to monitor their networks and security arrangements.
Because of the possible link to the Situationists, a Joint Task Force has been set up made up of MI5, American NSA agents and is supported by ISOC.


Reported by Max Lipsey
Freelance Journalist.