In a move which demonstrates greater-than-typical stupidity, as well as complete ignorance of how the internet works, French government officials have been ordered not to use handheld Blackberry devices amid fears that foreigners could spy on them (BBC).

Workers in the French president's and prime minister's office have been told their e-mails risk falling into foreign hands, Le Monde newspaper reports.

France's SGDN security service is worried because Blackberries use US- and UK-based servers.

Needless to say, the makers of the Blackberry -- Canadian firm Research In Motion -- have pointed out that Blackberry's encryption system was "the most secure wireless data solution available", and that it had been approved for the transmission of sensitive data by the governments of the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Austria and Canada, and by Nato, and that even the US's National Security Agency were not able to snoop on them.

Late yesterday representatives of the SGDN released a statement to the media:

You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur King, you and all your silly English k-nnnnniggets. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!

etc.

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NP: Lots of live Miles Davis (Roots and Traces: Spurensicherung)

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