IT contractor broke law in data raid on playground firm

IT professional, crime amateur.

Holly could have done this all a lot easier if he just got a couple of kids to break in.

Is their a lot of call for this kind of work? Because it would take me about an hour to rustle up a dozen kids who'd do it for trainfare and a slab of Carling.

Yours is the one with a sub-contracted rat-boy going through the pockets.

"in the Territorial Army for 32 years"?

"One witness who had served in the Territorial Army for 32 years said that he advised a colleague to give the group passwords because of threats of violence."

It doesn't say much for the training they give to the TAs does it?

Surely he should have leaped over the desk and incapacitated the lot of them using his TA martial arts training? Would he hand over Britain to Johnny Foreigner simply because they looked a bit 'ard? He should be strung up.

Bloody pansy.

Can you imagine Clive Dunn handing over his password to some thug under "threat of violence"? He'd have been shouting for Mr.Mainwaring and the rest of the Home Guard to come and sort these chaps right out.

Seriously though, if one of my directors came and started asking for this stuff, I'd ask for written and authorised confirmation that such an insecure request was properly sanctioned. On the other hand, If his thugs came and loomed over my desk in an attempt to menace me into compliance, I'd simply tell them to fuck right off - what are they going to do whilst at my desk anyway? Beat me up? In the office? Come on, get real.

sounds a bit fishy

I don't do well being given orders anyway and somebody threaten me my general reaction is to put them out of commission right proper so I don't get hurt. I can't imagine that even if you didn't fight back that they wouldn't be serving up a good bit in HM Gaol. As to the "honestly, guv, I was only following orders...." You're screwed by your own stupidity.

What happened to the solicitor ?

Nothing I'm guessing.

Surely of all people there who should've known better...

But of course as with all solicitors, he probably knows the judge or someone who knows him in turn, bought him a whiskey in his private members club or golf jamboree and all's well on that front.

There's a scene in Backdraft I think it is (parp), where one of the inmates is trying to get parole and he's all nicey nicey to the parole board but then De Niro or whoever the "I know where fire's children go to school" dude was, goes up to him and says something like: "If I gave you the whole world tomorrow, what would you do with it?" - and the guy suddenly can't maintain the act any longer and says: "I'd burn 'em, I'd burn 'em all!!!!" - in a suitably maniacal manner.

Replace the phrase "the whole world" with "the whole world of solicitors" and therein lies the path to world peace and solving pretty much everything that's wrong with this country.

hmm

I was once asked by a guy to inspect his "partners" HD I asked him why he told me he belived she was being un faithful. I said who bought the machine, She did, So I said i get back to him.

My solicitor pointed out that i coud face many charges on that one. ESP if he went bats with the info, i might have found and he began wielding an axe..........