GCHQ list of staff names compromised
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By intern Hasaan Arshad, who took his phone into the building and connected it to a TS network and was able to walk out with data including staff names on his phone. A man who'd discussed financial rewards for leaking data.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/student_gch...
And they found child porn.
Those internships went well then.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/student_gch...
And they found child porn.
Those internships went well then.
This is a mild example. We need more terrorists in GCHQ / MI5 / MI6. There are non-white-British terrorists in our communities and these corrective under-representation programmes help to increase the level of representation in the intelligence services, given that representation box ticking is most important it's worth the risk.
Dingu said:
I’m sure you have 110k quality posts and I’ve been unlucky with the ones I’ve seen.
Paying attention is your choice, likewise with using logical fallacies when failing to make a point. Fallacists may well be under-represented in the intelligence community, another choice for you to pass up on. It could hardly go better than the one which was meant to be the subject of this thread, which had such a positive outcome.Tankrizzo said:
How tf do you bring your own device in and just connect it to a secure network? Do they have no sort of security in place?
All the reports I've read indicate it was his work phone that he used to access the secure system, and he then transferred the data from that phone to his own equipment at home later, and it took roughly a month before he was arrested- whether than was a result of a routine audit of access logs of the secure system or there was some other reason for suspicion, who knows? Either way, still a significant lapse in both security and vetting. turbobloke said:
Yeah but….Under represented blah blah blahhhhhhh something something.
LimaDelta said:
Shocked. Who'd have thought opening up our intelligence services to people who hate us could result in this. Still, at least our armed forces or government haven't been similarly compromised.
Who do you mean by "people who hate us" and who are "us". I'm struggling to read this in any way that doesn't make you sound like a racist, but perhaps I'm just misunderstanding.
tangerine_sedge said:
LimaDelta said:
Shocked. Who'd have thought opening up our intelligence services to people who hate us could result in this. Still, at least our armed forces or government haven't been similarly compromised.
Who do you mean by "people who hate us" and who are "us". I'm struggling to read this in any way that doesn't make you sound like a racist, but perhaps I'm just misunderstanding.
BOR said:
Fact is, there have never been any white male british spies who have infiltrated our great british secret services.
Were those not-spies of white British extraction appointed on a box-ticking procedure?Years ago the first Mrs TB was a Cheltenham civil servant. She was / is a Cambridge maths graduate, so while I didn't know what she was doing I could make an informed guess. We were engaged at uni when filling out job applications, and I read her GCHQ recruitment materials, eventually applying for a role known then as GCT, I don't know if it exists nowadays. Having got through the initial interview, then taken their cryptic entrance exam in a church hall in Charlton Kings - fascinating and alone well worth the hassle of applying - it all came to a head in London in front of the largest interview panel in history with the then head of the civil service centre stage. After that I decided to say non merci and took another option. Link with the thread - based on evenings in the pub with the mrs and her workmates, it now looks likely that northerners had been under-represented around that time. After a number of years' servicing in a very civil manner, my ex decided that the job was overly tedious and wanted something more exciting and better paid, so she went into teaching. Never bored after that.
LimaDelta said:
tangerine_sedge said:
LimaDelta said:
Shocked. Who'd have thought opening up our intelligence services to people who hate us could result in this. Still, at least our armed forces or government haven't been similarly compromised.
Who do you mean by "people who hate us" and who are "us". I'm struggling to read this in any way that doesn't make you sound like a racist, but perhaps I'm just misunderstanding.BTW... The wallies didn't just get to this thread early, they started it.
Im somewhat amused that the main thrust of this thread is ppl whingeing about racism.
Hint chaps: whether someone is racist or not is less important than staff names being compromised.
I still remember being given the talk from the chap out of 5 about security all those many years(decades) ago. Scared the crap out of all the grads attending, then we all decided it was mostly b
ks and just "scare" talk. Turned out he was correct in everything he said.
You will be amazed how much it can concentrate your mind when ppl sit in cars down your street observing your house!
Im almost strictly civvy these days and much prefer it that way.
Hint chaps: whether someone is racist or not is less important than staff names being compromised.
I still remember being given the talk from the chap out of 5 about security all those many years(decades) ago. Scared the crap out of all the grads attending, then we all decided it was mostly b
ks and just "scare" talk. Turned out he was correct in everything he said. You will be amazed how much it can concentrate your mind when ppl sit in cars down your street observing your house!
Im almost strictly civvy these days and much prefer it that way.
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