Mi6 Chief Blows His Cover On Facebook ; Astonishing Security Lapse As Wife's Account Reveals Intimate Details of Family Holidays and Famous Friends How Mi6chief Keeps a Secret Exclusive [Scot Region Edition 2]

Mail on Sunday › July 05, 2009

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THE new head of MI6 has been left exposed by a major personal security breach after his wife published intimate photographs and family details on the Facebook website.

Sir John Sawers is due to take over as chief of the Secret Intelligence Service in November, putting him in charge of all Britain's spying operations abroad.

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Mi6 Chief Blows His Cover On Facebook ; Astonishing Security Lapse As Wife's Account Reveals Intimate Details of Family Holidays and Famous Friends How Mi6chief Keeps a Secret Exclusive [Scot Region Edition 2]

But his wife's entries on the social networking site have exposed potentially compromising details about where they live and work, who their friends are and where they spend their holidays.

Amazingly, she had put virtually no privacy protection on her account, making it visible to any of the site's 200million users who choose to be in the open-access 'London' network - regardless o...

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