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UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap
longacre writes "The Times of London is today reporting a January incident in which a top aide to Prime Minister Gordon Brown discovered his BlackBerry missing from his hotel room after spending the night with an attractive woman who approached him in a Shanghai disco. Seems this was a run-of-the-mill BlackBerry without any encryption, only a simple password lock. The greatest fear is that, even if the device did not contain any sensitive messages at the time, there was likely enough information on board for a hostile intelligence service to snake its way deep into Downing Street's email servers. The aide was 'informally reprimanded.'"
Only a fool would think that an attractive chinese women in chinese disco is going to go to bed the first night with a westerner.
You've clearly never been to Asia. Rest assured you can see many examples of exactly this happening all over Asia.
Now send in 007 to get that Blackberry!
you may be right, but as someone living in Beijing I can tell you that if you ever leave your bike or phone unguarded for one minute, there's a strong chance it will be gone the next time you look for it....
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
If he's on a BES the problem is non-existent, the Admin can remotely wipe the BlackBerry with a single command.
Unless whoever stole the BlackBerry has put it inside a metal box, or taken it to a sub-basement, or done anything else to block it from receiving a signal.
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