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Military Investigates Sale of Sensitive Data
smokeslikeapoet wrote to mention an article being run in the New York Times detailing the sale of sensitive data in Afghan markets. From the article: "The military acted after The Los Angeles Times and The Associated Press reported that computer memory drives smuggled out of the base were being sold in shops. Some drives bought by the reporters contained material marked secret as well as information about insurgency activities and names and personal details about American service members and Afghan agents working for the United States military." Fox News is reporting the sold storage units are being repurchased by the military as they can find them.
So, does anyone have a .torrent?
How long have we heard about companies selling old computers with customer data? Or people selling computers on ebay chock full of porn? The inability to learn from others' mistakes is a worry. Then again, the US military is in Asia
Clearly whoever is in charge never saw the Princess Bride and learned from Vizzini's wisdom
Course...he died, soo...
Or couldn't they get an export license?
Dear
[X] Whiny liberal asshole
Please:
[X] Shut the fuck up!
Here's a win-win solution: Send the old hard drives and other media to our units in Iraq. They can duct-tape them to their Humvees and use them as armor.
The bene's:
1) If the Iraqis steal the media, it'll be useless: the electricity in Iraq is never on long enough to scan a drive.
2) If you leave the media taped to a Humvee long enough you'll be guaranteed to achieve true data destruction.
Fuck that repurchasing shit. TAKE IT. You're the goddamned United States military.
I'd imagine the main cause of death from a roadside bomb is not the 'blast' itself but rather the shrapnel produced.
If a piece of shrapnel traveling at such speeds hit a hard drive, I'd imagine the result would be even more shrapnel from the HD+case shattering.
Armoring a vehicle or a person is a little more complicated than just slapping some extra pieces of metal onto it.
I'm hoping you were shooting for funny and not insightful, the mods don't seem to get it anyways.
Actually, they found Saddam's weapons of mass destruction at the same Afghan market, but it took too long to draw up a military purchase order to "repurchase" them, so they've since been sold to someone else.
From TFA:
..Some drives bought by the reporters contained material marked secret..
Hey, this is ok, as President Jr. decided to declassify the data and sell the drives to make a few bucks for a whitehouse kegger.
Badum-BUM! Hey, I'll be here all week...
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
...which oxymoron is responsible for this? Military Intelligence or Military Security?
Of course, when we discarded a computer, we removed the harddrives, open them up, used a belt-sander on the platters, then put the platters in an incinerator that was hot enough to melt them.
I was going to ask why you'd bother using a belt sander on something you were just going to melt anyway, but then I realized how much fun that would be.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.