An advisor to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown lost his BlackBerry while in 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, spent the night with her, and in the dawn, 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 says safety measure wasn’t compromised. But that is just the latest example of a UK government official losing a mobile device packed with secrets. According to a recent report, the UK Ministry of Defense has lost 747 laptops
and 131 memory sticks since 2004 and the government as a whole has lost more than 1,500 laptops. Why can’t the UK government HANG ON TO ITS MOBILE GADGETS?

Original post by Mike