There was reason to believe Le Carre knew his subject. In the real world, where his real name is David Cornwall, he was one of the British spies who was betrayed by Kim Philby, the notorious MI6 operative who was a double agent for the Soviets.

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Alert Debugging (developer of Cappuccino javascript framework) on the new feature in HTML5. In case you haven't heard, HTML5 specs out access to the local clipboard, enabling drag-n-drop from your computer, straight into a web app. Nice!