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Military Secrets for Sale on Stolen USB Drives

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the find-the-battleship dept.

nTrfAce writes "Per a BBC Article, "US forces in Afghanistan are checking reports that stolen computer hardware containing military secrets is being sold at a market beside a big US base. Shopkeepers at a market next to Bagram base, outside Kabul, have been selling memory drives stolen from the facility, the Los Angeles Times newspaper says.""

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  1. Another blunder by the gov. by multiOSfreak · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    From the article:
    The disks reportedly contain personal details about US soldiers, military defences and lists of enemy targets.

    Who's brilliant idea was it to put that kind of information on small, portable storage devices? How stupid to you have to be to think that's a good idea?

    I'm gathering from the article that these USB drives, which had critical secret information on them, weren't even encrypted. I mean, encryption is free, for fuck's sake! Then again, that's probably why the government didn't use it. Why use something free when you can pay a contractor to do it for millions?
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