US Military Leaks its Secrets Online

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."

Comments

Just block all IP blocks from "enemy" nations

[Mr. Haplo]

Look, this is simple. The military should just block all incoming access from any country that it deems an enemy. That way, no matter how lax they are with security, it'll be that much harder to get to even unprotected documents by our "enemies". Of course, this should be done at the core router level... Just in case they weren't aware...

-- Jordan

wow....

[Mystery00]

The level of incompetence required to make such stupid mistakes is just mind blowing. Direct result of the problems the US faces over education?

Re:Keeping secrets

[cheezedawg]

The world witnessed Saddam use his WMD against the Iranians and Kurds on multiple occasions. This takes the notion that he had WMD out of the "belief" realm and plants it solidly in the "proven fact" category.

Cut corners

[flyingfsck]

The actual buildings won't look anything like the plans, due to 'cutting of corners' that is endemic in Middle Eastern construction. So instead of a rectangular jail with 1000 rectangular cells, there will be a roughly circular construction, much smaller than planned, with a few large and somewhat rounded out rooms. This is why mosques always have rounded domes. That is the ultimate example of corner cutting...