Amount paid for use of botnet in Click
A Freedom of Information request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Neil McGovern
The request was rejected by British Broadcasting Corporation.
Neil McGovern
14 March 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
This request refers to the Click programme as described at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/cl...
Could you please provide:
* the price paid for control of the botnet
* the approximate size in bytes of each email sent out during the
'spam test'
* If available, the total size of traffic transferred curing the
'web attack'
Yours faithfully,
Neil McGovern
FOI Enquiries
British Broadcasting Corporation
16 March 2009
Dear Mr McGovern,
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, about the Click programme which was received on
14th March. We shall deal with your request as promptly as possible and,
at the latest, within 20 working days. If you have any queries about
your request please contact us at the address below.
The reference number for your request is RFI20090438.
Kind Regards
BBC Information Policy and Compliance
BBC Freedom of Information
Room 2252, White City
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TS, UK
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/foi
Email: [BBC request email]
Tel: 020 8008 2883
Fax: 020 8008 2398
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FOI Enquiries
British Broadcasting Corporation
14 April 2009
Dear Mr McGovern,
Please find attached the response to your request for information which
has been dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act
2000.
<<RFI20090438 - final response.pdf>>
Kind Regards
L Wright
Information Policy and Compliance
BBC Freedom of Information
Room 2252, White City
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TS, UK
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/foi
Email: [BBC request email]
Tel: 020 8008 2883
Fax: 020 8008 2398
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Neil McGovern
20 April 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing further to my FOI request 'Amount paid for use of
botnet in Click'. I thank you for your response, but would like to
ask that this decision is reconsidered in light of the Information
Commissioner's decision FS50085710.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/am...
Yours sincerely,
Neil McGovern
FOI Enquiries
British Broadcasting Corporation
20 April 2009
Dear Mr McGovern
Thank you for your email below. As set out in the response letter, the
BBC does not offer an internal review when it considers that the
information requested is not covered by the Act. In these cases, the
Information Commissioner's Office has agreed that requesters may appeal
directly to the ICO, and details of how to do so are set out in the
letter.
Yours sincerely
BBC Information Policy and Compliance
Room 2252, 2nd Floor, White City
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TS, UK
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/foi
Email: mailto:[BBC request email]
Tel: 020 8008 2883
Fax: 020 8008 2398
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