UK terrorism threat alert RSS service
The UK government provide a web page so you can tell how afraid they
currently want you to be. It's located here:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/counter-terrorism/current-threat-level/
Sadly they seem to have neglected to make an RSS feed for the page
available, so there's no way for the concerned citizen to get timely
notification of when they should be more afraid or when, all praise to
our glorious leaders, we can safely relax a little bit. This obvious
oversite needs to be corrected so here at Anonymong I've put together a
little script that will tach the page for us and feed any changes out to
an RSS feed, when it does change I also grab a quick copy of the current
RSS feed from the BBC news site. Just in case anything interesting is
happening. The script is very simple, so I'll be making it available
shortly in case anyone wants to run thier own version, hopefully my RSS
feed is clean enough to easily read and feed into other programs. If it
breaks please let me know as it all rather depends on the government not
changing the website to much.
Just in case you've forgotten the five threat levels are:
- critical - an attack is expected imminently
- severe - an attack is highly likely
- substantial - an attack is a strong possibility
- moderate - an attack is possible but not likely
- low - an attack is unlikely
The official historical list of threat levels can be found here:
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/threat-levels.html#history
giolla @ anonymong . org