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Weekly Megathread: 17/07/23
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I wish the Megathread well.
TBH my assumption is that they have access now. That story on Friday that Whitehall “may have found an old version of his PIN” is too weird. No IT department keeps PINs on record, “old version” makes no sense unless he’s been setting his PIN to $current_year. I do wonder if GCHQ has done the job and attempts are being made to spread enough FUD to avoid any press about how GCHQ can get into personal phones.
More likely a deal has been done and the pin was the price.
I'm betting Sunak stands to lose from the early messages in the pandemic
I think they were hoping to bury it under the BBC presenter story.
That seems to have moved along fairly briskly; and seems to have been weird throughout.
You may have called it