How many times has this happened to you — you’re talking, having a conversation you assumed was private only to discover that someone was listening in http://www.essentialsecurity.com/Documents/article15.htm
For most of us, it’s just a bit of gossip for a stranger eaves dropping as we have lunch, but the slip-up is much worse if you happen to be George Bush http://www.iwantmyess.com/?p=3, you’re talking to Tony Bliar at a G8 event and the subject matter is the current crisis in the Middle East.
It’s amazing that two of the most techophobic world leaders could be so clueless about microphones at a public event. Reporter Adam Boulton with Sky news in London has transcripts of a whispered conversation between the UK’s PM and the U.S.’s President Bush http://adamboulton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/bush_blair_unpl.html#comments
Remember that little fiasco a microphone caused would-be Democratic Presidential candidate Howard Dean? “Yeee-aah!”
Letting out secrets in public or over email can lead to profession downfall. For most of us professionally we don’t have the luxury of a fixed term at our jobs.
If I have a meeting with a coworker on say sales strategies and don’t realize competitions at the next table, my jobs in jeopardy.