Watched Casino Royale on DVD last night. Near the end, Mr Bond decides to tender his resignation by sending an email to M from his franchise-sponsoring Sony Vaio laptop…
The camera cuts to the laptop screen, showing the lengthy resignation letter (“I hereby tender my resignation with immediate effect”), and the high-security MI6 email client…
James clicks Send, and the email sends to the address “M (MI6 HQ)”. For such a short email, it’s a strangely big file: 85KB…
Once sent, the MI6 mailbox comes up - the bottom half of the screen shows the Outbox, so the top half is probably the Inbox.
Taking a closer look at the Outbox, you can see that it’s ordered as “Arrange By Sent”, which presumably means that the most recently sent email (”Resignation”) is at the top of the list, with all the emails sent that day grouped as “Today (10 Messages)”. Here’s a close-up:
So he must have sent 9 emails that day before he resigned. And what kind of emails does a top-secret international super-spy send? “Stationary Request” to david.dean@thenet.com! Maybe he wanted a new stapler?!
The email he sent before that was “Un-named” to anne.bennett@thenet.com, but prior to that, he sent three “Security Updates” - the first, “Security Update 3″ to someone called “andrew”, then “Security Update 2″ to david.hicks@thenet.com, and most recently “Security Update 1″ to neil.pinkawa@thenet.com. None of the email subjects have “Re: ” in the title, so they must all be his own work. So why would he send three security updates in descending order to three different people?! Must be a spy thing.
…And before the security updates, Mr Bond also seems to be filling in for Miss Moneypenny…
So who or what is this mysterious “thenet.com” organization? According to whois.net, it’s a Florida-based company called NetTuner Corp, who make money by snapping up and recycling domain-names:
Registrant:
NetTuner Corp.
4465 W. Gandy Blvd., Suite 801
Tampa, FL 33611
USDomain Name: THENET.COM
Administrative Contact:
Domain Administrator domains@nettuner.com
NetTuner Corp.
4465 W. Gandy Blvd., Suite 801
Tampa, FL 33611
US
813-839-9000 (FAX) 813-837-8900
…but I reckon it’s all a cover!!
I imagine the 85kb comes from the large letter head, which most likely is an image and not text.
If you look at the “inbox” section it’s sorted by received ascending so the newest is at the bottom (see today’s messages, assuming the ones above it are previous days.) The outbox is sorted by date received descending and it appears he responded to each email not in the order they were received but by newest to oldest(removing the “re: ” on each) shortly before filing his resignation.
Hahahaha.
Cover up. Definitely.
Someone’s got too much time on their hands….
Want to know how BSG ends? I’m going to tell you soon, just so I have someone else to discuss it with….
You have waaaaaaaay too much time on your hands.
I want to know what stationery he ordered now 
You ain’t gone then?
‘Fraid not Barnze!
“So why would he send three security updates in descending order to three different people?! Must be a spy thing.”
well if i remeber correctly its a play on the fact that the recipients of the security updates are IT based people attached to the movies production.
however the david hicks email could be a reference to the australian terror suspect of the same name.
Ha! “Stationary Request.” Either he can’t spell, or he means a request which is not moving. The stuff you write letters on is spelled with an “e”–”stationery.”
Still doesn’t explain why Security Update was the last email sent, and before that was Security Update 3.
…well, you see theres a thing called a filler. it just makes the movie look better and keeps thought like this going. you do have a lot of time on your hands, but hey, its decently spent. better than other things. its probably nothing and they used an inbox/outbox from one of their workers and that stuff happened to be there. but its always fun to look at these. so congrats… seriously
Thank you Colwyn (I think)
Well, Mr pinksy (you sad man) i am the graphic designer and animator responsible for this screen as well as all of the others in the film! Firstly the names are all sony production cleared names (people from production) (check the credits!!!, you obviously have lots of time!) also ‘thenet.com’ is a legally cleared URL for use in the film! The pure fact that this screen shot is visible for only a split second states how very empty your life must be!!!
Thanks Neil (I think!). It was the other half that spotted actually, but yes, you’re right, it was a bit sad of me to get all the screenshots and even look up “thenet.com” on whois! But it did get me about 6000 hits off digg.com, so I guess there’s a lot of other nerds out there too. Anyway, I was just in the middle of rearranging my cutlery drawer!!
Subject : Stationary Request
Hereby I request:
1 Mont Blanc Pen that could trigger TNT bomb in the range 10 Mtr.
1 stapler with 10MB quality picture, to scan top secret documents.
5 pencils that can glow in the darks whenever I break it into two.
5 Eraser of plastic bomb
Thanks,
J.B
Well, David Hicks and Neil Pinkawa are the lead motion graphic designer and lead screen graphics artist on the film.
http://imdb.com/name/nm2242829/
http://imdb.com/name/nm2245003/
Chris McBride is the computer & video supervisor.
http://imdb.com/name/nm0564278/
No surprise these folks would cement their names forever in cinema history given their respective positions.
Thanks K. Neil Pinkawa has already send me some very kind comments, if you scroll up!
