Quite a while back I bemoaned the fact that MI5 weren’t kind enough to provide an RSS feed of the current UK threat level so I wrote a little script so I could know in real time if I should be more or less afraid, and so make sure that my fear and paranoia were at government approved levels at all times.
Well it seems that they’ve finally* got round to providing an official RSS feed which is very nice of them and far more reliable than my efforts. You can find it here:
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/threat-level-rss.html
Note it’s available over both HTTP and HTTPS so you can be sure that no one will be snooping to find out how afraid the government thinks you should be.
I’ve added the official feed to this blog as well as my home grown version – just in case the two ever diverge.
Just as a matter of interest the threat level hasn’t been less than substantial since August 2006 when they started telling us what was going on.
* To be fair they may have done it ages ago I’ve not been paying that much attention.
