July 8, 2009 by James Oliver
Sir John Sawers, the new head of MI6 , has become embroiled in an embarrassing security breach after it emerged that his wife, Shelley uploaded several pieces of compromising information about him to her Facebook page. The postings included holiday photographs of Sir John as well as information about the couple’s children, their friends and most troubling of all, their home address.
The security breach comes can be relied upon to add to the debate about the effect of the internet on national security, especially as it comes only 6 months after it was revealed that Scotland Yard head of counter-terrorism, Bob Quick’s home address was available online through searchers looking for his wife’s limousine company, run from their family home.
It also comes on the back of claims that the Taliban are using Facebook twitter, et al. to gather intelligence on army movements in Afghanistan, which is enough to make sure this is not going to be the last we hear about the security problems involved with social networking.
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