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Military Secrets for Sale on Stolen USB Drives
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.""
Windows - it's that insecure, you don't even need physical access to a machine to steal it's componants! ;-)
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
I was wondering why my free Microsoft USB drive hasn't arrived yet. It's so obvious it's fulfilling it's patriotic duty as an information decoy. With that move, I don't think MS will be harrased by regulations n' stuff.
Similarly we've had several reports in the press about MI5/6 agents/staff leaving their laptops in Taxi's - whenever data is portable it is at risk of loss or theft...
Reminds me of a friend of mine who had to support an application for the the Israeli military. Over the phone they finally realised that he needed to be at the machine to fix it. Took months getting approval.
When he finally got approved he was allowed enter as far some guard post, at which point another guy came out and talked to him through a fence. He never once saw the machine.
Good points above, but there are a couple of things that I would like to know:
1. How big are the drives? I find that my 256MB one fills up all the time. If these are 512MB or more, I may want one.
2. How much? I can get a (new) 1GB drive at Costo for $60 (Canadian), so I'd hope these (used) ones are going for less then that.
Otherwise, how will we ever know what our armed representatives abroad are doing in our names?
But shouldn't soliders have the right to strip prisioners naked and photgraph their anuses, without fear of government surveillance?
May the Maths Be with you!
In Soviet Russia, military secrets sell you!
Mission accomplished!
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
not if it's goatse guy!
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
Poor guys... Now their addresses are in the hands of the entrepreneurs in Kabul... they're going to be getting tons of junk mail for "Habib's Roof and Tile" and "Afghan National Platinum MasterCard"... :(
Hm. Invading a country. Letting the invaded people work for you at your base with your stuff. And now there's stuff missing you say? Really? Who would've thought ....
Linux! It's that great you don't have to be able to spell correctly. It just knows.
Why is everybody whining when this is obviously a great win for western values? The afghans have gotten from raising sheep to stealing and sellinf government property in only a few years ! They are now obviously a fully fledged western capitalistic society.
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And then we found that the corporal on the other end found it bizzare that there was something shuffling in the envelope, and to secure it better he put a couple of staples through the envelope. And through the disk.
Security thru immobilization!
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
I have your military secrets right here! It's yours for only 3 easy payments of 19.95?! That's right only 19.95! And if you act now before you finish reading this post, we'll throw in keys to the pentagon, absolutely FREE!!!! *NY residents must pay sales tax. Offer only good in the continent u.s.