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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.
I was going to say the same. How is it possible that Fox News reporters could even open the data files ? .DOC or .PDF files on USB keys ? I wonder how this is even possible.
One could expect that everything is encrypted, every single file being a part of a globla security policy, etc.
This is the army ! Big companies protect their sensible data by ensuring each sensible file is properly encrypted, defining trust circles, and strict key management policies. How were the files stored ?