Posted on 05/09/2025 5:08:18 PM PDT by george76
A James Bond-esque mission to recover highly sensitive secret files held in safes aboard the sunken super-yacht Bayesian was reportedly carried out by UK intelligence service MI6 before Italian divers could get to them.
The top secret documents related to yacht owner Mike Lynch’s Darktrace cybersecurity company, which has contracts with UK, US and Israeli intelligence agencies, ...
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Sources close to the Italian investigation claimed British MI6 agents removed sensitive computer equipment and data belonging to Lynch — one of seven people killed in the sea tragedy last August — from the shipwreck, before the Italian authorities started to send divers to recover it this week.
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The 56m (184ft)-long sailing vessel is still on the seabed and was expected to be recovered in May.
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The top secret information could be of interest to foreign governments, prompting prosecutors to request that the yacht be guarded by both above-surface and underwater surveillance… but they may have been too late.
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The pre-emptive action — reportedly unauthorized by Italian authorities — saw the removal of computers, hard drives and encrypted devices from the vessel in a real-life mission
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Shipwreck survivors previously told prosecutors that Lynch — a tech tycoon dubbed the British Steve Jobs — “did not trust cloud services” and always kept data drives in a secure compartment of the yacht wherever he sailed.
The Bayesian was believed to contain the trove of top-secret documents and confidential data on foreign governments held in the ship’s hull in a series of waterproof safes.
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Three crew members of the Bayesian are officially under investigation for crimes including negligence, recklessness and failing to save the ship from an oncoming storm,
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Were the Epstein tapes in there?
Given that the yacht sunk, what are the odds?
OMG!!! That was my FIRST thought also!!
Clinton confidant?
Groan! Doubly so because I was ready to post a similar comment.
That looks like an aircraft.
Maybe on planet Vulcan.
A V-bomber - blast from the past!
Model of the British Vulcan bomber. JB 007 Thunderball scene.
There’s a dead diver.
Who knows.
THIS is like what a Bayesian yacht looks:
I think you mean Boolian logic, not Bayesian.
How long can computers, hard drives and encrypted devices stay submerged in salt water and be usable? Or how long before data recovery is not possible?
For a long time if the safe is watertight ! No exposure !!!
Good point. I forgot it was all in a safe, not just laying about. Thanks for the reminder.
“No, no, no. I said I wanted those secret documents to be held in a SCIF, not a skiff!!”
Speargun duels between color-coded sets of skindivers..
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