Post-It Note Won Gilligan Journalist of the Year
Inside Andrew Hosken's new biography Ken: The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone (after the slightly tedious chapters about left-wing politics) we learn that a City Hall worker on the eighth floor was the source of the emails which may prove to be the downfall of Ken Livingstone. How was this incredible feat of political espionage achieved? A temporary worker read the password off a Post-It note...He/she was able to log in as Lee Jasper and print off the emails, by the yard, which ended up in Andrew Gilligan's welcoming hands. General Lee Jasper had to stand down as a result and we all got to laugh at a few hot and steamy emails that he had sent to a female colleague.
Gilligan won the Journalist of the Year award on the back of the the stories. Coincidentally a survey by Infosecurity released today found that
"women are far more likely to give away their passwords to total strangers than their male counterparts, with 45% of women versus 10% of men prepared to give away their password, to strangers masquerading as market researchers with the lure of a chocolate bar as an incentive for filling in the survey."
18 comments:
Never ceases to amaze me how dumb people are.
Here's a trick.
I believe it is permissible to use a generic profile and password, don't leave it lying around though.
For your bank or financial transactions, use a completely different one or more.
have a third for miscellaneous, more if your brain can cope.
I have more than I can remember, however my disks are encypted and my location anonymous, when I choose it to be so I don't believe anyone with access to my PC will have much luck unless I gove them the password.
Information security on all your PC's should consists of anti virus, firewall, spyware and for the serious, anonymiser type software and full disk encryption.
Fuck them and fuck GCHQ and the NSA.
Yes, yes we all loved the thieving lothario Grasper being exposed, but what we want to know is when is his collar going to be felt? I suppose never, if Livingslime were to get back in because Sir Ian of that Ilk will have the chocolate cunt back telling him what to do, or rather what not to do, like look into any crimes. Oh - he doesn't anyway does he, if they invove any ZaNuLab supporters?
I wonder if Mad Bob Mugabe knows of his qualities, and that he might soon be available? Could be a nice little retirement position there for a Chief of police not afraid to execute the odd innocent.
Fubar.
The gov has the right to demand your encryption keys now and you can be charged for not doing it.
I suggest using Truecrypt which has a facility to have a hidden area. Give plod your 'password' and they open up an encrypted file with nothing of interest. Meanwhile your interesting stuff is held in the same encryted area but in a hidden volume only reviled by the real password. Plod can't nail you because you have provided a decryption key and there is no way to identify if a hidden area is present or not.
As for passwords they are next to useless. Better to have a long strong password written down in your wallet than a weak one you can remember. Just miss out a character when you write it down and don't write what it's for.
This is worrying. I may have to change my cat's name: at present it is "Password".
thursday question time looks good
guido is bitter that nobody passed the stuff to him. gilligan won a prize for cultivating contacts, ie being a journalist, mate.
He may cultivate contacts, but he doesn't protect them awfully well.
olaf mate, hate to burst your bubble about hidden volumes in information security but you're just wrong.
"The gov has the right to demand your encryption keys now and you can be charged for not doing it."
What if you told Plod you had simply forgotten your password?
You can't be prosecuted for having a bad memory..not even by this Stalinist Government, surely?
but what the choccie bar people don't know is - how many of the passwords they were given were genuine?
I see Ms Harperson's collar will not be felt. One law for them and another for us.
General Lee Jasper had to stand down as a result and we all got to laugh at a few hot and steamy emails that he had sent to a female colleague.
Ohh I don't know, the fucker got away with some hundreds of thousands of our money at least, so I would say he is probebly the one laughing.
Unless, of course, they did it because they were hacked off with Jee Lasper?
Something he had done that had hurt them, personally?
Mind you, many times people in offices say: "I'll leave my password for my emails on a Post-It note. Open the account up and deal with anything urgent while I'm on holiday."
They follow instructions and inadvertently stumble on something that makes the poor soul realise there boss.colleague is: Having an affair, ripping off the company, running a scam business, etc., etc.
What to do with what you find? Either download them to a data stick or forward them to an anonymous email account which, after downloading on to a computer, you close.
Gilligan is turning his Ken scenario into the one Michael Crick had with Jeffrey Archer and in the end Archer has just become the top selling author world wide 'you see' people think for themselves and printing same story every day will not convince people.
HH
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-mayor/article-23478927-details/Ken%27s+in+Heaven+as+he+campaigns+for+the+pink+vote/article.do
Caption competition, anyone...?
It's good to see the always-excellent Nightjack here; and thanks for your useful input regarding data security.
Admittedly my own interest has been limited to protecting my own constituents' info (to which end I have pursued a number of protective measures during the eight years I was an elected Councillor), but the principle remains, whatever one's own perspective might be.
I hear that there is an email floating about that mentions the idea of charging tolls on bridges across the Thames. How to get another £5 per car ontop of the £8 just for crossing the river.
I got an email from one of Ken's Babes denying the rumour. So it's true then?
Another rumour which obviously is completely untrue is that an ex employee of City Hall, not unknown for his dubious business activities which have been paid for by us, is investing in a far eastern sweat-shop that makes bicycles. What on earth could that be for?
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