13th August 2009, 03:14 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by afarensis
'and I recall in the olden days, when I had to sign the Official Secrets Act, you didn't actually get to see the terms of the Act itself, just a form saying that you understood that if you breached it...now that was secrecy!'
Wow that must have been fun Im not sure now if I actually saw the act itself as it was a fairly long time ago (late 80s) but it was on the form that it mentions you couldn?t discuss the content of the piece of paper you were signing. I?ve probably just breached it now
Ironically due to the policy of need to know i didn?t actually know what it was I was building until years after I had left so i couldn?t have told the Russians anything even if I wanted to.
Actually I prefer to be anonymous so that I don?t have to think about the quality of what im posting.
Thinking about it, I signed it too (in 1990). And I gor 'negatively vetted' - always sounded rather more painful than it was......
Amiable drudge - Sounds lovely.... No chafing? Wash well? What colours can you get them in?