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From the BBC… “… British agents retrieving data from a fake rock planted on a Moscow street”

Now, I can’t claim to be an expert on espionage, but doesn’t this seem to be rather an unreliable approach to learning state secrets and all that stuff? Some hapless foreign office translator is going to be working through pages and pages of transcriptions of the sort of drivel most of us speak when walking down the street.

And of course, somewhere in the middle of all those recordings, there’ll be that needle in the haystack: “Well, as I heard when I went to the meeting at Gazprom last week, their stake in RosUkrEnergo… oh look, there’s that new pizza place. Let’s go for lunch…” [sound of hastily departing footsteps]

For some reason, the standard spam filter in my email program has been fooled on several occasions today. First, there were around 20 instances of a Viagra/Cialis advert, poorly disguised as an undelivered mail. Then came 25 instances of the W32/Sober-Z worm, purportedly from the Home Office. Blunkett’s last revenge, perhaps?

And now, I’ve just received what appeared to be one of the lamest phishing attempts I’ve seen…

Now, this probably indicates that I’m the most horrendous pedant, but the first thing I noticed was the grammatical error… “The list of questions are attached”.

The attachment, in case you wondered, is just the old W32/Sober-Z worm again. Send as many as you like… can’t hurt my Mac one bit!