Nepalese hotel guests get to view Aussie secrets

TOP-SECRET Aussie computer files were read by guests of a hotel in Nepal, according to AFP.

Aussie coppers have launched a high-level investigation into the security breach involving confidential Australian diplomatic cables and police documents that were left on a computer.

A red-faced diplomat is understood to have been told to pack his yak at get back to Australia to explain the situation. Apparently, the diplomat used a USB stick in a hotel computer and left it in the machine.

Chances are it would still be in the computer, but hotel guest took copies of some of the material and gave them to The Age so that Australian authorities would do something about it.

It is the second incident involving Aussie diplomatic security in a few days. The government had to say sorry to family members of a Melbourne couple killed in a plane crash near Mount Everest on October 8.

Police photographs of the charred bodies of Andrew Frick McLeod, 31, his girlfriend Charlene Kate Zamudio, 24, and 16 other crash victims were left on a computer and could be seen by guests at the Radisson Hotel in Kathmandu for three weeks.

Apparently this sort of stuff passes for entertainment in Kathmandu. µ

L’Inq
AP