UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 19, 2008 @08:22PM from the my-envy-exceeds-his-chagrin dept.

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.'"

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Re:What they aren't telling us by kirbysuperstar · 2008-07-19 22:02 · Score: 0, Redundant

oooh my head hurts.
Just as planned.
It's been a while by krkhan · 2008-07-19 22:49 · Score: 0, Redundant

[blah blah blah] spending the night with an attractive woman who approached him in a Shanghai disco [blah blah blah]
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