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U.S. military cracks down on stolen computer drives
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 14:38:40 -0400 (EDT)
Follow-up to an April list post via the L.A. Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-disks10apr10,0,5854905,full.story ) Updated: 9:46 p.m. ET May 8, 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12694212/ BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Computer storage devices containing sensitive military information stolen from the U.S. base here and widely available in shops last month are now hard to find. The U.S. military has increased security measures to prevent Afghan workers from slipping the small portable flash drives into their pockets in order to sell them to shops near the main American base in Afghanistan, a U.S. spokesman and shopkeepers said Monday. One shopkeeper said Afghan workers on the Bagram base are now scrutinized carefully on their way out. "They even look in their shoes," said the 40-year-old shopkeeper, who would only give his first name, Amruddin. In April, dozens of used flash drives were available in markets here. Drives viewed by The Associated Press had the Social Security numbers of hundreds of soldiers, including four generals, and lists of troops who completed nuclear, chemical and biological warfare training. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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