Facebook is watching you?

Citizens of different countries will not take national issues equally serious. I am not here to state the obvious and you probably already know what diplomacy means for Brits. You can now read the following abstract:

Wife of Sir John Sawers, the future head of MI6, in Facebook security alert*

Lady Sawers disclosed details such as the location of the London flat used by the couple and the whereabouts of their three children and of Sir John’s parents. She put no privacy protection on her account, allowing any of Facebook’s 200 million users in the open-access London network to see the entries.

Patrick Mercer, the Conservative chairman of the Commons counter-terrorism sub-committee, said that the entries were a serious error and potentially damaging.
“Sir John Sawers is in a very sensitive position and by revealing this sort of material his family have left him open to criticism and blackmail,” he told The Times. “We can’t have the head of MI6 being compromised by having personal details of his life being posted on Facebook.

“As a long-serving diplomat and ambassador, his family have been involved in his line of business for decades. I would have hoped they would have been much more sensitive to potential security compromises like this.”

*Michael Evans, Defence

Let me get this right: The problem is that John hasn't trained his family well enough? No, That his wife wasn't smart enough to think of the potential threats for her husband's life and career? Hmm maybe but then again this means that people that her husband is after, are spending time on facebook as a source for information for blackmailing hmmm Then maybe John's family should avoid the usage of other stuff that can help terrorists track him down: loyalty cards at the local sushi shop, tesco bonus point cards and maybe even credit cards? Nahh I still cannot tell where the real problem lies...

Ohh What if the press lacking any serious reports tried to dramatize a story of the (hurt?) British diplomatic pride? Damn that cannot be it. Why would they ever do such a think?

If there was one single thing I would like to know in order to tell if Sir John Sawers is the right person for the job that would be: How good he was at high school at cheating with his exams? Was he any good at getting away with murder? Cause I am a big believer that it takes one to find one.