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US Military Leaks its Secrets Online

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-out-the-cia-myspace-page dept.

athloi writes "Detailed schematics of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq, geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad and plans for a new fuel farm at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan are among the items accidentally left online by government agencies and contractors."

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  1. How egalitarian by devilradish · · Score: 5, Funny

    see this is what I like, I'm fine with the government invading privacy just as long as they don't get to have any either.

    1. Re:How egalitarian by undeaf · · Score: 5, Funny

      what is this sun of which you speak?
      Okay, how do I explain it in an easy to understand way. The sun is like a huge server that uploads Vitamin D to you. However, we're constantly told scare stories about how we'll accidently download skin cancer from it, to sell antiviolet products. Unless you live near the equator, you can't get very good access to it except in the summer.
  2. How to improve your security... by digitalderbs · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The posting of private material on publicly available FTP servers"

    $ ftp ftp.usmilitary.com
    220 FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
    Name (ftp.usmilitary.com): guest
    331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
    Password: guest@guest.com
    ftp>

    Thankfully, they caught on and learned their lesson : "the SRA anonymous ftp server has been shutdown indefinitely. In the coming months, a new secure ftp site will be introduced that will replace the functionality of this site."

    $sftp guest@sftp.usmilitary.com
    Connecting to sftp.usmilitary.com...
    Password: guest@guest.com
    sftp>

  3. Need a more secure alternative to FTP? by statemachine · · Score: 3, Funny

    A spokeswoman for contractor SRA International Inc., where the AP found a document the Defense Department said could let hackers access military computer networks, said the company wasn't concerned because the unclassified file was on an FTP site that's not indexed by Internet search engines. "The only way you could find it is by an awful lot of investigation," said SRA spokeswoman Laura Luke.

    Gopher... No one looks there!
  4. anonymous ftp? by bl8n8r · · Score: 3, Funny

    > the SRA anonymous ftp server has been shutdown indefinitely

    Anonymous?... FTP? They may have as well put them on bitorrent and named them britneys_boobies.zip

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