MI6 Terror Photos, Data Accidentally Sold On Ebay 317
Barence writes "In what's turning out to be a bad week for security in the UK, confidential MI6 documents, fingerprints and photos relating to suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists have been found in the memory of the second-hand Nikon Coolpix camera, which was bought on eBay for only £17. The buyer immediately went to the police, who initially treated it as a joke; when they realised he was serious, they swooped on his home and seized his camera and PC. Remember, this is the same MI6 which plans to recruit new members via Facebook, a userbase not exactly famous for its dedication to privacy, security and discretion. The news comes on the back of yesterday's embarrassment over a local council whose VPN device ended up on eBay with confidential login details left on it."
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Tard (Score:4, Funny)
George Smiley would whip out a light-saber and... oh, wrong Alec Guiness film. Sorry.
The data bailout package (Score:2, Funny)
The UK government has approved a 700 billion megabyte bailout to stop the Data Crunch causing the End of the Internet.
Rather than just giving the data to those who have it already, the government is distributing everyone's information free [today.com]. "We feel that there is strong bipartisan support for a bottom-up data distribution initiative, such that everyone everywhere can share in the data generated and held by government," said a spokesman whose name was lost.
Reports that Neo-Nazi organisations are asking for "lost" data disks with the name and address of every immigrant in the country are as yet unconfirmed.
Re:So I just have to wonder. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fuck the police (Score:5, Funny)
The buyer immediately went to the police, who initially treated it as a joke
I'll just type it up on my invisible typewriter.
Re:Note to self... (Score:5, Funny)
But then again, in the US they would have tasered him for no reason.
You are badly misinformed. American police do NOT ever, under any circumstances taser people for no reason.
They taser them because it is funny.
Re:Fuck the police (Score:5, Funny)
the lesson (Score:3, Funny)
Next time, send the data anonymously to Wikileaks.
Re:Fuck the police (Score:3, Funny)
its is naive to label them a bunch of C&nts and then hope they are nice to you later on.
Re:Fuck the police (Score:5, Funny)
Whether or not he got his personal data back is another question, as anyone knows it is the time invested in generating your own data that is the real value in your PC. I hope he had a backup.
It's OK, he can just buy them back when they turn up on ebay ...
Rich.
Re:So I just have to wonder. (Score:3, Funny)
Not to hard just don't drives twice from anybody that sells you clean drives.
I accidentally the whole drive?
Re:Fuck the police (Score:2, Funny)
Good deal (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So I just have to wonder. (Score:5, Funny)
WTF am I going to use nuclear bomb codes for? I'm no longer in the nuclear blackmail business, and all my former henchmen are employed elsewhere. Mostly at Oracle and Microsoft. We still send each other xmas cards, and talk about getting together for a reunion, but it's hard to get all our schedules to line up, especially since most of us have young families now anyway. Back in the day when we were all single, it was easy to commit all our waking hours to work (building a massive underground fortress in a dormant volcano, etc.), but none of us really have the time anymore. Sigh. I guess you really can't go back to the glory days once they're gone.
Re:So I just have to wonder. (Score:5, Funny)
After we sat back, talked it over amongst ourselves and considered it, we agreed to sell to them. Looking back, I'm not so sure that was really the right thing to do, but at the time the ground was littered with companies who had crossed them and lost. Anyway, a few of us got buyout packages and moved on elsewhere, but most stayed with Microsoft for awhile at least. It's not a bad place to work. Nice campus and all, but it sure wasn't as cool as the supersecret lair was.
Eventually, they managed to integrate some of our world-domination technology into the next build of their OS, but they never really understood it, and it was a disaster (remember ME?). At that point, I was pretty disgusted, so I left to join another start-up.
Re:Fuck the police (Score:3, Funny)
Well, I guess it's a good thing you didn't buy a digital camera that had a flash disk full of classified information, isn't it?
I think you should cheer up! Now sing along!
You're gonna go to that store and buy a backup disk! YEAH!
You're gonna get over your ex and score with a hottie real quick! ALL RIGHT!
And if the government man wants to take your flash drive, tell him that it's all right!
Cause you've got a backup drive and a hot chick tonight! (GUITAR SOLO!)
Profit!! (Score:5, Funny)
1) Sell camera on ebay
2) Wait for buyer to report MI6 photos
3) Steal Camera back
4) PROFIT!!!
5) Go to 1
Re:So I just have to wonder. (Score:3, Funny)
I've got some friends over at Oracle that could take care of... Oh, hey, wait a minute! Small world, isn't it?
If you see Dave, let him know I still want my 20 sided dice back.