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United Kingdom Agents busted by FSB agents for spying in moscow....now thats what i call pawned..!

It's "pwned". Someone needs to bone up on their 1337-5p34k.

It's "pwned". Someone needs to bone up on their 1337-5p34k.
Actually there are some verison called pawned- I just read the wiki page on l337 today.

What struck me was the farcical, Benny Hill like, nature of the whole thing: the special 'computer rock' that kept on breaking down, so they had to shake it and sometimes cart it away fro special repairs &c.

Further, the UK has been spying in moscow for decades - if not centuries - and has always gotten away with it before. Yet typically, for Tony Blair's government, what was once simple and easy in the past, has become almost impossible to achieve. That man has to be running one of the most incompetant administrations of the past three hundred years.

pawned, pwned

tomatoe, tomawtoe

That man has to be running one of the most incompetant administrations of the past three hundred years.
Tony Blair does intelligence now?
Seriously, I'm not sure I would blame him for this one.

Tony Blair does intelligence now?
Seriously, I'm not sure I would blame him for this one.


Hes not to blame for the stupidity which surround the british intelligence service,he's a polititian not a field agent.

Tony Blair does intelligence now?
Seriously, I'm not sure I would blame him for this one.

Dead drops, chalk marks and other proven methods worked sucessfully for years (centuries -?). No-one got caught until they started using the stupid computer rock, which is exactly the kind of pointless heath robinson improvement that 'new' labour makes such a fetish of. So yes, I do blame him. (Not to mention that the computer rock worked about as well as the any other new labour innovation).

And given that this is linked - apparently - to the UK funding of 'pro-democracy' groups in the former eastern bloc, and seems to be part of a wider effort, I would imagine that the PM did indeed have oversight of these operations. PM is a fairly hands on job.

let me correct myself for you might have missunderstood me. Im 100% sure that the PM had knowledge of this but the methods used were to be of no concern to him. Instead of renting the low-orbiting sat systems they prefered something wich was actualy used by the U.S. in the vietnam war, by dropping mics in jungles and listening in on the V.C. movements.

to be honest britain is the leading power in espionage and second is the incident with the rock realy that much of a blunder compared to the CIA's attempt to kill Osama binladens second in command in pakistan alot of pakistani people were killed also MI6 (british secret service) unlike the CIA are actually under control and dont just do what they want and the Russian government cannot see this as much of a problem if the spy's were not even expelled from the russian federation and as for saying tony blair is a bad PM we all remember the thatcherite depression at least the government is now liberal and the economy is steady.

to be honest britain is the leading power in espionage and second is the incident with the rock realy that much of a blunder compared to the CIA's attempt to kill Osama binladens second in command in pakistan alot of pakistani people were killed also MI6 (british secret service) unlike the CIA are actually under control and dont just do what they want and the Russian government cannot see this as much of a problem if the spy's were not even expelled from the russian federation and as for saying tony blair is a bad PM we all remember the thatcherite depression at least the government is now liberal and the economy is steady.Your spelling/grammar is as bad as MI6. And that says a lot.

:rolleyes: Is there some link for this or are we supposed to make it up as we go along?

It's been all over every British news outlet for the last two days.

Linky (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4638136.stm)

It's been all over every British news outlet for the last two days.

Linky (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4638136.stm)

Thank you.... Really? How the hell did I miss that? :confused: Didn't see it on the BBC web... taken up by CIA flights and Russian oil thingy...

techno rocks ;)

Not mine:

"Who the heck thinks anything of a seemingly unobtrusive gentleman or woman sitting at a park bench with a laptop these days?"

There is nothing suspicious about it at all. Unless its -37C (-26F) degrees outside, as it has been recently in Russia."

Dammit! Now I'm going to be looking at rocks suspiciously too.