In the case of the American loss, where the devices were stolen from a table outside a hotel conference room, the devices never would have fallen into the hands of a foreign power had a better procedure been in place.

However, in the case of our Downing Street dirty dancer, the only possible protective procedure is better on-device security and remote destruction. No power in the world will prevent amorous aides from doing the nasty given the right temptation.

As Austin Powers once said, "Shall we shag now, or shall we shag later?" Either way, without better BlackBerry security, we're all shagged.

David Gewirtz is the author of How To Save Jobs and Where Have All The Emails Gone? For more than 20 years, he has analyzed current, historical, and emerging issues relating to technology, competitiveness, and policy. David is the Editor-in-Chief of the ZATZ magazines, is the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and is a member of the instructional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley extension. He can be reached at david@zatz.com and you can follow him at http://www.twitter.com/DavidGewirtz.