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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. Since when? by GrahamCox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since when has Jack Straw been very interested in Freedom of Information? Under his Home-secretaryship Britain has become a surveillance state.

  2. Re:Jack Straw stranded by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd pay them to keep him!

  3. A plan with no drawbacks... by carou · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "any emails sent could not be necessarily accessed via the Freedom of Information Act."

    That may be exactly why he uses it...