Monroe Chat

Although I did find the highlighted section rather amusing, I really do believe that social networking sites can be detrimental to security. For the most part, we tend to put on information that is not of any value to anyone other than our Friends and Families, but just as in this case (not so sure it requires a governmental inquiry) there was no security and all info was available to anyone who is a FB user (in the London network)

I have a FB page that I use to communicate with. I have posted details, inclusive of photo's video's of my Children, however, I also have the security set to prevent those that I don't know having anything other than my profile pic to view.

Head of M16 might have to have a serious chat with Wifey .... speedoes or not, I'm sure he didn't want the world to know (or have the visual!)

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There are calls for an inquiry into whether the new head of MI6 should be allowed to take up his post after his wife reportedly put personal details on the Facebook website.



The potentially compromising information about Sir John Sawers included intimate photographs and the location of the couple's London flat, The Mail on Sunday reported.
Lady Shelley Sawers also revealed the whereabouts of their three children and of Sir John's parents on the social networking site, according to the paper.
Details about the couple's friendships with actors Moir Leslie, who plays Janet in The Archers, and Alister Cameron were similarly published.
The information was removed after the newspaper contacted the Foreign Office.
Lady Sawers' half-brother, Hugo Haig-Thomas, a former diplomat, was said to be among those featured in family photographs on Facebook.
Mr Haig-Thomas was an associate and researcher for controversial historian David Irving, who was jailed for three years in Austria in 2006 after pleading guilty to Holocaust denial, the paper reported.
Lady Sawers put no privacy protection on her account, allowing any of Facebook's 200 million users in the open-access "London" network to see the entries.

Senior politicians said the security lapse raised concerns about Sir John's ability to take up his post as chief of the Secret Intelligence Service in November, giving him responsibility for Britain's overseas spying operations.
Edward Davy, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, called on Gordon Brown to launch an inquiry.
He told the paper: "Normally, I would welcome greater openness in Government for officials or politicians but this type of exposure verges on the reckless.
"The Prime Minister should immediately commission an internal inquiry as to whether this has breached the security of the incoming head of MI6 too seriously to allow him to take up the post."
But Foreign Secretary David Miliband dismissed allegations of recklessness and said it was "no state secret" that Sir John wore Speedos on family holidays.
He told the BBC: "For goodness sake let's grow up.
"He was appointed 10 days ago to be the head of MI6; he's an outstanding professional who will do a really good job in an outstanding organisation that does a huge amount for this country."
Shadow business secretary Ken Clarke also dismissed the potential security implications of the information - which he said he was certain Britain's enemies would have already known.
"In the old days we used to keep the name secret, all photographs were banned and I never really believed that the Russians didn't know who the head of MI6 and MI5 was," he told Sunday Live with Adam Boulton on Sky News.
"I suspect that the enemies of this country do not wholly rely on the Mail on Sunday and Facebook for their information so I personally would get a little more calm."
But Liberal Democrat deputy leader Vince Cable insisted the party was serious about wanting an inquiry.
"Yes we are serious, there is potentially a serious risk here," he told the programme.

Sir John's first act in office-
"Say, 007, would you mind taking a whack at the missus? She's a bit of a loose cannon and we can't have that can we?" (wink,wink,nudge,nudge)