Security "breach"?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/07/22/whale-yacht022.html

"Whale" attacks are a seriously underestimated physical security threat.  Very few 
companies have business continuity plans addressing this threat.  Security 
management has not yet properly produced policy template documents addressing 
the issue.  Access control of the Cape waters is not properly dealing with the 
matter.  Sailboats and other small craft are broadcasting their locations without 
encrypting the information, so whales (and sharks) are able to intercept the data.  
A properly constituted security architecture would prevent such issues.  (The 
original "Whale" was one of the earliest polymorphic viruses, creating a few dozen 
variants.)  Our undersea cable communications infrastructure is definitely 
vulnerable to these creatures.  Operations personnel do not have proper incident 
response training for these events.  And what are the legal and jurisdictional issues 
of South African whales attacking ships of other nations?

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