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Brit MP Dorries: I gave my staff the, um, green light to use my login

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Mushroom

I don't understand this

In most places I've worked in recent history sharing your password would be an escort-you-out-of-the-building offence (OK, I was often a contractor: it might have been only a written-warning offence for employees). These weren't big official-secret type places. (Looking at porn on work computers or networks would have a similar punishment -- there's a reason for the 'NSFW' tag people put on things which are, well, NSFW: quite independently of whether looking at porn is wrong, it is clearly wrong at work.)

But this is OK if you are an MP, because MPs don't do anything which might be at all sensitive, right? It would not matter at all if some intern sent mail, or posted to Twitter or whatever, from an MP's account. Indeed, it's convenient that they can: 'all those racist comments from my account, those weren't me they were some intern'.

And these are the people who want to legislate as to whether we can use strong encryption. What the fuck is going on in their minds?

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