Why Can’t the Brits Hang On To Their Gadgets?
An advisor to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown missing his BlackBerry while in Republic of china on an official visit with the prime minister. Was it a Chinese government “honeytrap”? The unnamed advisor was seduced by a Chinese woman who approached him in a disco in Shanghai. He went back to her apartment… yada, yada, yada… next daybreak his BlackBerry was gone. Some speculate that Chinese government spies stole the gadget as part of its Thousand Grains of Sand approach to stealing the secrets of other countries. 10 Downing Street states security wasn’t compromised. But that is just the latest instance of a UK government official losing a mobile device packed with secrets. According to a recent report, the UK Ministry of Defense has missing 747 laptops and 131 memory sticks since 2004 and the government as a whole has missing more than 1,500 laptops. Why can’t the UK government HANG ON TO ITS MOBILE tech gadgets?