She just can't keep a secret

This is pretty hard to believe:

The wife of the new head of MI6 has caused a major security breach and left his family exposed after publishing photographs and personal details on Facebook.

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

But entries by his wife Shelley on the social networking site have exposed potentially compromising details about where they live and work, their friends’ identities and where they spend their holidays. On the day her husband was appointed she congratulated him on the site using his codename “C”.

Go to the article for details, because there's more.

A woman can't be expected to give up her Facebook page; that would be so unfair. And what good is having a husband with such a high position if you can't brag to all your friends (and "any of the site’s 200m users around the world who choose to be in the open-access London social network on Facebook")? That would take all the fun out of it.

Foreign Office staff are warned about using social networking sites when they join but MI6 advises its agents to maintain even tighter secrecy, telling them to reveal their true role only to their closest family.

And some of them might want to think twice about that last bit.

Troglopundit and Daleygator found this first.

Linked by Michelle Malkin (buzzworthy)

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