The British government is facing fresh criticism over another embarrassing lapse in security after a second batch of secret official files were found left on a train.
The papers, which cover the UK’s policies on fighting global terrorist funding, drugs trafficking and money laundering were handed to The Independent on Sunday.
This latest blunder has prompted calls for civil servants to be banned from taking confidential documents out of their offices…
The papers were found on the same day that a top secret assessments by the Joint Intelligence Committee covering Iraq and al Qaida were handed to the BBC having also been left on a train…
The pol heading the committee investigating security lapses said, “Our enemies don’t even need to hack into our computers, they apparently just need to travel on public transport…”
If the civil servant lost the documents on the day that the train was due its clean then perhaps. But given that is only once every 26 weeks…. the secret is safe from cleaners.
Ian.
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this is such a bunch of BS. Secrets are not unintentionally left on trains
Subjects: Opportunity is knocking here with a major fist: Start leaving all sorts of misinformation in the tube in envelopes marked Eyes Only’ and ‘Official Secrets: Do not Kinko’ so the radical underground will eventually get their hands on it.
And while you’re at it, draw up some bomb plans with fatal flaws in them designed to vaporize any lab that builds from them.
Never mind, that last one’s been taken.