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UK Politician Criticised For Using Hotmail

Posted by samzenpus on from the make-better-choices dept.

nk497 writes "The UK justice secretary Jack Straw has been criticised for using Hotmail as his official government email account after he apparently fell foul of a Nigerian spammer in a phishing attack. A security researcher said using such an account not only left the government in security trouble, but meant any emails sent could not be necessarily accessed via the Freedom of Information Act."

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  1. Re:oh my! by monktus · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know sensor ship is a big issue

    Ah, the Sensor Ship, that must be Jack and Jacqui's new top secret surveillance vessel!

    You don't have the cognitive skills required!

    Let me correct that for you:

    You don't have the cognitive skills required to use the preview button!

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  2. Re:Jack Straw stranded by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jack Straw stranded in Nigeria? It's more likely than you think.

    Nah, that's just wishful thinking

  3. Wrong scam... by Bazman · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd pay Nigerians to *keep* Jack Straw. As would a lot of people. Thank god we can vote him out, and get in... hmmm... well...

  4. Re:Jack Straw stranded by JohnBailey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jack Straw stranded in Nigeria? It's more likely than you think.

    Given the proximity to reality most of them seem to exist in, stranded in Narnia is more plausible.

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  5. Re:Not government account by wisty · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have to get elected. I'm assuming that you lose all your real friends, and all the fake ones will be happy to contact you.

  6. Re:Not government account by Cally · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been using gmail and gmx for at least a decade,

    How remarkably clever of you, especially as Gmail only entered it's initial invitation-only beta in 2003...

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  7. Re:Not government account by wisty · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, but he's a union employee, and Parliament is a union shop. You can only get members of the Labor or Tory unions in his job, so we're pretty much stuck with him.

  8. Ob Yes Minister quote by rpjs · · Score: 4, Funny

    In summary, Jack Straw has many hats, and the email address he uses should depend on the hat he is wearing at the time.

    "And which hat are you talking through now, Minister?"

  9. Ob Yes Minister quote x2 by mike2R · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sir Humphrey: It is so difficult for me you see, as I am wearing two hats.

    Jim: Yes, isn't that rather awkward for you.

    Sir Humphrey: Not if one is in two minds.

    Bernard: Or has two faces.

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  10. Re:Not government account by Sancho · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe he has several accounts, and was using an "account decade."