Well, there's not enough security on Joe's computer to keep out a determined Methos from hacking it (seemingly) without any other tools. Amy also seemed pretty sloppy with her chronicling, and she was fresh out of the Watcher Academe and on her first assignment. If it was me, I wouldn't want to mess that up. (She would probably have someone checking over her work and technique, shouldn't she?)
Perhaps the watchers are such an old, organized secret society that they rely on tradition a bit too much, and are falling behind on the times. Though if that were true, they probably have their own wildly specialized code words and terms and Amy really shouldn't have used the word immortal when talking about her subject in Season 5 - Indiscretions.
I know there must have been other episodes with Watcher protocal, but everything I think of seems to be for an extreme situation (Like, "ZOMG! The Highlander just walked into our bookshop/Regional HQ!" or "Grr! We hate immies now, lets kill them all.")
I once read a fic where the FBI started looking too hard at the Watchers and the Watchers realized that they had embraced technology too much, and were being found out by too many different people because of it. (following money trails and such, phone records of people checking in with regional heads, etc.) Everything seems to leave a paper-trail in this day and age.
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Perhaps the watchers are such an old, organized secret society that they rely on tradition a bit too much, and are falling behind on the times. Though if that were true, they probably have their own wildly specialized code words and terms and Amy really shouldn't have used the word immortal when talking about her subject in Season 5 - Indiscretions.
I know there must have been other episodes with Watcher protocal, but everything I think of seems to be for an extreme situation (Like, "ZOMG! The Highlander just walked into our bookshop/Regional HQ!" or "Grr! We hate immies now, lets kill them all.")
I once read a fic where the FBI started looking too hard at the Watchers and the Watchers realized that they had embraced technology too much, and were being found out by too many different people because of it. (following money trails and such, phone records of people checking in with regional heads, etc.) Everything seems to leave a paper-trail in this day and age.