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Originally Posted by Incognitas
How can someone just walk out of their workplace with such documents without any checks being made?  |
Easy, if you are cleared at the appropriate level there is nothing to stop you copying data to a memory stick. The vast majority of employees in government/defence jobs are cleared to at least Restricted level, with many cleared to Secret Level.
The official secrets act, List X status, ITAR and company policy means action could be taken if an employee was negligent, this would be likely to happen in a private company but when the government is the employer there appears to be no action taken.