Gotta love the Chinese...they keep it real grimy.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...4353.ece
From The Sunday Times
July 20, 2008
Gordon Brown aide a victim of honeytrap operation by Chinese agents
A top aide to Gordon Brown has been a suspected victim of a “honeytrap” operation by Chinese intelligence agents.
The aide, a senior Downing Street adviser who was with the prime minister on a trip to China earlier this year, had his BlackBerry phone stolen after being picked up by a Chinese woman who had approached him in a Shanghai hotel disco.
The aide agreed to return to his hotel with the woman. He reported the BlackBerry missing the next morning.
The aide, whose identity is known to The Sunday Times, immediately reported the theft to the prime minister’s Special Branch protection team and was informally reprimanded.
A senior official said yesterday that the incident had all the hallmarks of a suspected honeytrap by Chinese intelligence. The incident will raise fresh questions about the security of sensitive official information. It follows a spate of high-profile cases where data from government departments have been lost.
BlackBerrys are used as mobile telephones and also store data and send and receive e-mails. Downing Street BlackBerrys are password-protected but security officials said most are not encrypted.
Experts say that even if the aide’s device did not contain anything top secret, it might enable a hostile intelligence service to hack into the Downing Street server, potentially gaining access to No 10’s e-mail traffic and text messages.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...4353.ece
From The Sunday Times
July 20, 2008
Gordon Brown aide a victim of honeytrap operation by Chinese agents
A top aide to Gordon Brown has been a suspected victim of a “honeytrap” operation by Chinese intelligence agents.
The aide, a senior Downing Street adviser who was with the prime minister on a trip to China earlier this year, had his BlackBerry phone stolen after being picked up by a Chinese woman who had approached him in a Shanghai hotel disco.
The aide agreed to return to his hotel with the woman. He reported the BlackBerry missing the next morning.
The aide, whose identity is known to The Sunday Times, immediately reported the theft to the prime minister’s Special Branch protection team and was informally reprimanded.
A senior official said yesterday that the incident had all the hallmarks of a suspected honeytrap by Chinese intelligence. The incident will raise fresh questions about the security of sensitive official information. It follows a spate of high-profile cases where data from government departments have been lost.
BlackBerrys are used as mobile telephones and also store data and send and receive e-mails. Downing Street BlackBerrys are password-protected but security officials said most are not encrypted.
Experts say that even if the aide’s device did not contain anything top secret, it might enable a hostile intelligence service to hack into the Downing Street server, potentially gaining access to No 10’s e-mail traffic and text messages.
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Re: Gordon Brown aide snared in Chinese honeytrap
Mon, July 21, 2008 - 1:28 AMInteresting that they are spying on the UK.
What, are we a buncha also-rans now? No honey-traps for important people in the US?? -
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Re: Gordon Brown aide snared in Chinese honeytrap
Mon, July 21, 2008 - 2:03 AMThey made our corporates do joint ventures to enter their market and probably already got most of our interesting tech.
Not sure why they'd need to bother with our politicians since they're freely selling our nation anyway. Maybe just for the sport of it, dunno.
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