Ebay camera came with free MI6 'terror suspects' photos

First, re credibility: This might be a hoax, but let's not forget that more than one U.S. military laptop has been sold with highly sensitive data right there for the snooping, not even unsecurely deleted.

Second, didn't I just read that the English cops recovered a truckload of stolen Play Station games, put the truck in their impound warehouse, and then had the truck re-stolen from that warehouse by the thieves on the very same day?

Seems as if George Bush's influence on the English government hasn't yet been sufficiently exorcised.

B.S. a spy agency is using a $30 camera and has a picture of an apple computer from the late 90's with supposed information sitting on the screen.

Just a though but what would happen if you were flipping through the terror suspect photos and found... yourself?

This is a funny story, and the idiocy involved in forgetting to clear the memory of a spy camera before you sell it is legendary, but this is from The Sun, so I'm not sure I'm convinced it's not bullshit...

Goodness me, first they were just losing classified information but now they're *selling* it?

This is a running joke by now, surely?

That's a great deal! Good price on a digital camera and free terror suspect photos, too! I'd buy something like that. Where can I get one?

Jajaja. slight combination of carelessness and one of the cons of our mass information superhighway!

You don't believe this story, do you? This has got to be "planted"

Sounds like the makings of a great movie.

I would have sold the story but not the information. I'd give that back...pronto.

This made me actually drop my mouth open upon reading it. The smarts that this didn't take is simple dumbfounding. haha. They certainly win the award for trying way to hard to be way too stupid to be part of an elite group of smarty pants people.

Two things from this:

1. How can somebody who has passed all of MI6's stringent vetting and been given access to these suspects/pics be so daft as to not check the memory first? It's a rookie error.

2. You can get digital cameras for £17 on there? Amazing! And the papers will have paid the buyer for their story so they'll have essentially got a free camera, a bit of pocket money and a great story to tell in bars. A true bargain.

wow, my last camera had pictures of plans to take over the world by a group of talking ducks...I think they're a bunch of quackpots!