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jvmorris
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 Wouldn't it be easier . . .

If the Labour Government simply compiled a mailing list and sent all sorts of sensitive, privileged, and national security information out to all the 'usual suspects'?

I mean, it really does seem a bit tedious to rely on Cabinet ministers, MPs, and senior civil servants carrying around laptops with sensitive information on them (which shouldn't be there in the first place) so that bad guys can get the stuff.

Why not just cut out the middle man? »news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7459579.stm
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wonko3fc
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The thing is, 50 years or so ago, we were leading the world on this sort of thing. Security and deception. 20 years ago, when I was in the RAF, sensitive documents were checked every 12 hours for their presence and we would rotate a file check page by page twice daily.
Any anomaly and everything stopped until it was resolved.

How we have arrived in this situation is beyond me.


Pjr

join:2005-12-11
UK

edit:
June 17th, @04:41PM

reply to jvmorris
What she hasn't told anyone is that she has a file on her desktop called "My Passwords.txt".
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Pjr

join:2005-12-11
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edit:
June 17th, @04:40PM

reply to wonko3fc
Damn good point. Sheer incompetence, nobody seems bothered any more.


jvmorris
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reply to Pjr
said by Pjr See Profile :

What she hasn't told anyone is that she has a file on her desktop called "My Passwords.txt".
No, that's too much hassle. She probably printed them all out and carried a sheet of paper around with the laptop so she could easily refer to the passwords for the various documents.


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Pjr

join:2005-12-11
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said by jvmorris See Profile :

No, that's too much hassle. She probably printed them all out and carried a sheet of paper around with the laptop so she could easily refer to the passwords for the various documents.


Hmmm but she might leave the paper on a train...
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jvmorris
I Am The Man Who Was Not There.
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join:2001-04-03
Reston, VA

said by Pjr See Profile :

said by jvmorris See Profile :

No, that's too much hassle. She probably printed them all out and carried a sheet of paper around with the laptop so she could easily refer to the passwords for the various documents.


Hmmm but she might leave the paper on a train...
Don't be silly! It wouldn't be of any use unless she also left the laptop. Honestly!
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Joseph V. Morris


Pjr

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UK

said by jvmorris See Profile :

Don't be silly! It wouldn't be of any use unless she also left the laptop. Honestly!
That's why she keeps her passwords in a file on her computer...
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jvmorris
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But then, how does she log on to the computer itself?
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Joseph V. Morris


Pjr

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UK


edit:
June 17th, @05:15PM

said by jvmorris See Profile :

But then, how does she log on to the computer itself?
LOL.
Username: Hazel
Password: Hazel
Even a politician can remember that!

Edit: Woops. I've just revealed all her passwords
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jvmorris
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But her kids would figure that one out in a flash and then, next time, one of them was using her laptop on the internet, . . . oh, dear, ... now I think I understand why the laptop had to 'disappear'
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Joseph V. Morris
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