Re: What confidentiality?
"Either way it raises questions about why a minister who says it wasn't him didn't report the fact that someone else had been using his computer and then lied about it."
That point has been raised multiple times and both MPs and Ministers are on record as saying they share their log in details and passwords with their staff as a matter of course. Horrifying to us, but that seems to be (or has been) the culture in that place for some while now.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
