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U.S. Military Files Left Unprotected Online
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:04:05 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Yahoo! News (AP). [snip] Detailed schematics of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq. Geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad. Plans for a new fuel farm at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The military calls it "need-to-know" information that would pose a direct threat to U.S. troops if it were to fall into the hands of terrorists. It's material so sensitive that officials refused to release the documents when asked. But it's already out there, posted carelessly to file servers by government agencies and contractors, accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. In a survey of servers run by agencies or companies involved with the military and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Associated Press found dozens of documents that officials refused to release when asked directly, citing troop security. [snip] More here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070711/ap_on_hi_te/military_online_insecurity ...and here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070711/ap_on_hi_te/military_online_insecurity_ glance - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGlVPRq1pz9mNUZTMRAlAGAJ9chO7peB35CzB0hN19XpxfaqC+LwCfZMSD fCFqSJ+W3K4nyapKiZifXso= =z2aP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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