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+-   UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry in Chinese Honeytrap-> on Sunday July 20 2008, @01:51AM longacre

Submitted by longacre on Sunday July 20 2008, @01:51AM
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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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