<![CDATA[[SecurityRatty] tag: disco]]> http://securityratty.com/tag/disco Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:45:43 +0000 iRatty Engine http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[The Case of the Stolen Blackberry and the Awesome Chinese Hacking Skills]]> http://securityratty.com/article/d2eac32f957ee076996ff3cc5f4bb5a2 http://securityratty.com/article/d2eac32f957ee076996ff3cc5f4bb5a2 stolen by Chinese intelligence:
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.
That can't look good on your annual employee review. But it's this part of the article that has me confused:
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.
Um, what? I assume the IT department just turned off the guy's password. Was this nonsense peddled to the press by the UK government, or is some "expert" trying to sell us something? The article doesn't say.
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