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.'"

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Re:What they aren't telling us

[kirbysuperstar]

oooh my head hurts.

Just as planned.

There ain't no sense to bitch about it

[Anonymous Coward]

It seems I've been fighting since the day I was born but I know that I can move on
And it looks like I'll be fighting til the day that I die but I don't let it bring me down




There ain't no sense to bitch about it 'cause you all know what's gone wrong
When it's late at night, and you're in your bed, the bad don't seem so wrong








Penny for your thoughts
Mister, penny for your thoughts
You look so far away
It must be nice to drift that way

It's been a while

[krkhan]

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

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