Someone spoofing the Prime Minister's e-mail is serious, but funny, given that the listserv involved had a huge security loophole that should have been identified and plugged.
Thanks heavens national electronic security is in the hands of experts at the Communications Security Establishment rather than the political hacks in the current Prime Minister's Office. At least important stuff is safe.
Ya know, another Conservative first minister had a similar problem a couple of years ago.
Of course that guy had an episode earlier where he claimed someone was hacking his office.
That turned out to be someone trying to access a printer in the Provincial Conservative from another office in the same building.
The police were called. (Did they know the truth before the police were called?)
The media were called in, too and all sorts of wild and completely unfounded accusations were tossed around.
The whole episode was more farce than anything else but the media dutifully reported the Conservative leader's Get Smart claims of a hacking attempt.
Even at the time, the whole thing looked more like part of a continuous pattern of vicious personal attacks, smears and innuendo than something to bother the police about.
But bothered they were.
The police found nothing...
...not surprisingly at all.
No charges were filed at all.
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