British Foreign Secretary David Miliband denounced worries that security breachings were committed on Facebook after the Daily Mail confirmed Sunday that the next head of MI6, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, was spotted in a speedo on his wife’s public Facebook page this week, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

Lady Shelley Sawyers also reportedly posted personal details common to Facebook profiles but unusual for high profile users.

Not-so-secret agent Sir John Sawers will assume his office in November, and though the Mrs.’ Facebook page has been removed, tweeting Britons have kept this webisode playing…

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   arsereview The Lib Dems say there should be an inquiry about how the info from MI6 man got on Facebook. I can show them if they want…. 05 Jul 2009 from TwitterFox
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   arunhorne MI6 “Scandal” : …I suspect that the enemies of this country do not wholly rely on the Mail on Sunday and Facebook for their information! 05 Jul 2009 from Tweetie
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   jonsac Amazed: new head of MI6’s wife’s facebook is seen as security threat, not her family member who is associate and researcher for David Irving 05 Jul 2009 from Tweetie
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   AlbertoNardelli Might add an odd choice of swimming costume, but David Miliband is right: we now know the head of MI6 goes swimming. So what? 05 Jul 2009 from TinyTwitter

…and some tweets out of the UK take the opportunity to measure the size of the story:

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   ruskin147 Boy, people are being po-faced about MI6 story. Why is it on the news? Because a) it’s funny b) it’s interesting c)we’re talking about it 05 Jul 2009 from Tweetie
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   davidschneider like the head of MI6 having a Facebook page: “TALIBAN wants to be your friend – Confirm/Ignore” #facebookspy 05 Jul 2009 from TweetDeck
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   owenblacker RT @dankarran: I wonder how much of Licence Fee is for pointless outside broadcasts for rolling news, like Facebook story outside MI6 HQ? 05 Jul 2009 from TweetDeck
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   tomilube Preparing for TV interview bright and early tomorrow on the MI6 chiefs wife who posted stuff about him on facebook 05 Jul 2009 from web

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