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Post by housesparrow on Apr 27, 2009 7:30:43 GMT
...and those of her ilk. Three years ago the MI6-trained agent became parted with her handbag on a coach in Bogota. In it was a memory stick containing names and addresses of undercover agents and details of intelligence work. Okay, the incident cost tasxpayers millions of pounds and no doubt ruined her life completely. But when I do something really really silly (as I probably shall this week, if not today) I shall think of Agent T and feel just a little bit better about myself. spy loses secrets |
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Post by Patrick on Apr 27, 2009 13:58:04 GMT
I've often wondered if you would generate much extra business by running a company that relied purely on "old fashioned" paper and files to organise itself with. It would probably generate a lot more trust these days.
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Post by jennifer on Apr 27, 2009 14:54:15 GMT
I've often wondered about the logics of carrying memory sticks and CD.s containing such sensitive information...in a handbag with sweet wrappers, lipsticks and other essentials..it wouldn't have happened with a four drawer steel filing cabinet, you'd need a fudging big handbag for one of those.
Ok the steel cabinets were at risk from a passing spy or two armed with a torch, a secret camera and lock pick, but the info he/she would have gleaned from such a clandestine foray would be nowhere as great as the info that can be stored on a memory stick.
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Post by Patrick on Apr 27, 2009 21:29:38 GMT
I've often wondered about the logics of carrying memory sticks and CD.s containing such sensitive information...in a handbag with sweet wrappers, lipsticks and other essentials..it wouldn't have happened with a four drawer steel filing cabinet, you'd need a fudging big handbag for one of those. Ok the steel cabinets were at risk from a passing spy or two armed with a torch, a secret camera and lock pick, but the info he/she would have gleaned from such a clandestine foray would be nowhere as great as the info that can be stored on a memory stick. That has put all manner of odd images in my mind - from a filing cabinet on castors to a policeman pointing to one on a station platform and saying to a passer by "Is this your filing cabinet Madam?!"  Brilliant! |
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Post by NickCosmoSonde on Apr 28, 2009 1:51:10 GMT
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Post by jennifer on Apr 28, 2009 9:24:30 GMT
How could I? Quite easily.  |
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Post by housesparrow on May 3, 2009 7:41:15 GMT
I'm feeling very silly - and glad to be in England - because I left my handbag on the train yesterday, while rushing out to catch a connecting train with about a minute to spare. I realised what I had done as the train disappeared down the line but decided to catch the connection anyway. The conductor immediately phoned the terminus (fortunately not far away) and the bag was found. I haven't collected it yet but hope everything is still there!
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Post by Patrick on May 3, 2009 9:07:58 GMT
Oh! Best of luck! There's nothing worse than that realisation when something like that's happened!
Years ago I went to meet a friend at Paddington station. On the way home I discovered that my flat keys had fallen out of my pocket somewhere on the journey!! Luckily my brother lived not far away and I got a locksmith out in the morning. It wasn't a fun moment though.
Never buy trousers with odd shaped pockets is the motto there.
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Post by housesparrow on May 3, 2009 14:12:15 GMT
Anyway, bag retrieved and contents intact. My next job is writing a thank you letter to the railway - head office, I think!
I do hope that if I had ever been silly enough to apply for a job with MI6 thy would have weeded me out at an early stage as a potential safety hazard, unfit to be loose in a public place!
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Post by trubble on May 3, 2009 15:31:15 GMT
Anyway, bag retrieved and contents intact. My next job is writing a thank you letter to the railway - head office, I think! I do hope that if I had ever been silly enough to apply for a job with MI6 thy would have weeded me out at an early stage as a potential safety hazard, unfit to be loose in a public place!  |
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Post by trubble on May 3, 2009 15:33:56 GMT
what does this mean?  |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 3, 2009 16:41:59 GMT
I've often wondered about the logics of carrying memory sticks and CD.s containing such sensitive information...in a handbag with sweet wrappers, lipsticks and other essentials..it wouldn't have happened with a four drawer steel filing cabinet, you'd need a fudging big handbag for one of those. Ok the steel cabinets were at risk from a passing spy or two armed with a torch, a secret camera and lock pick, but the info he/she would have gleaned from such a clandestine foray would be nowhere as great as the info that can be stored on a memory stick. One would expect sensitive info to be kept on these kind of memory sticks...or it should be www.ironkey.com/AH |
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Post by housesparrow on May 3, 2009 16:58:15 GMT
what does this mean? It means I was failing yet again to be politically correct, Trubble. I am glad to be in England, Britain and the UK rather than in Columbia. I had a friend who worked in Bogota for two years and was three times robbed at knifepoint in broad daylight. In the end she never went out into the streets alone. From what I've heard about the place, I'd never have got the bag back. Mind you, I also once knew someone who was manager of a rail carriage cleaning team, and from what he said I suspect that had they got there first its contents might have disappeared, if not the bag itself! |
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Post by trubble on May 3, 2009 17:20:32 GMT
Ireland's nicer than Columbia too! Last Christmas there was a certain lost bag returned with full contents by a certain Garda Walsh.
The statistics are looking good for Stub Crouch anyway. Two lost bags, two happy endings.
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