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Air Force Emails Sensitive Information to Tourism Site

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-a-pretty-spectacular-oopsie dept.

Khuffie writes "The US Air Force has been sending sensitive information, including flight plans for Air Force One, to a website promoting the town of Mildenhall in Suffolk. When told of the error by the site's owner, the Air Force did not attempt to fix it at first. When reminded at a later time, instead of fixing the issue, they advised the owner to 'block unrecognizable addresses from his domain and have an auto-reply sent reminding people of the official Mildenhall domain and blocked his website from access on base.'"

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  1. The Airforce... by megla · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...because it's always someone elses problem.

    1. Re:The Airforce... by aug24 · · Score: 3, Funny

      In other news, the Air Force has requested that prostitutes, drug dealers and off-licences refuse money from US Airmen, and tell them to spend it on something moral and all-American instead.

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    2. Re:The Airforce... by ozmanjusri · · Score: 2, Funny
      the route for Airforce 1

      Are you kidding?

      An attacker who took that turkey down would get a pat on the back and free beers in every bar across the United States. Any sensible enemy of the US will make damn sure that's the last bird still in the air.

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    3. Re:The Airforce... by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 2, Funny

      The real question is what is sensitive information like that doing being sent over email without encryption.

      You only need to send stuff encrypted if you have something to hide ... oh, wait, heck, idiots.

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    4. Re:The Airforce... by rkanodia · · Score: 3, Funny

      Just think of how long we've spent after the destruction of symbols of US capitalism, the World Trade Center Towers. Multiply that by 1000, and you'd have

      'Jesus, that's...'
      'Yes. Nine hundred and eleven thousand.'

  2. more sites by Goffee71 · · Score: 2, Funny

    quickly signs up for:

    colonelblimp@area51.com
    thechief@whitehouse.gov
    maninred_onthegate@certaindeath.com
    admin@guam.com
    fatgord@no10.co.uk
    binladen@caves_r_us.pak
    just to see what comes my way

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  3. Send in the B2's by DeeVeeAnt · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the only way to neutralise the tourist threat!

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  4. Conspiracy! by neokushan · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's almost as if they WANT someone to kill the president....

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    1. Re:Conspiracy! by oliverthered · · Score: 2, Funny

      who doesn't

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      thank God the internet isn't a human right.
  5. The Cheney Effect by TheSixth1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Vice president accidentally shoots a man in the face, and it's the mans fault for getting in the way of the buckshot. The Air Force emails sensitive information to a website owner, and it's the site owner's fault for receiving it.

    The Cheney Effect is spreading!

  6. Re:Wait a minute. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I wonder how long until such slopiness gets them known as the U.S. Error Farce?

  7. Re:Wait a minute. by dcollins · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have you seen the new recruiting ads on TV that are precisely that, some guy at a screen in a bunker protecting the Pentagon from "3 million intrusion attempts a day?"

    Tag line is now "Air - Space - Cyberspace".

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  8. Re:Hmm by gsslay · · Score: 4, Funny

    It'll remove that cunning "click here to submit US Airforce secrets" link from his homepage.

  9. New way to leak classified "news" by failedlogic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dear Media Agency,

    It has come to the attention of the Air Force that it is likely your e-mail servers may have inadvertently received confidential Air Force e-mails. These e-mails were sent in error. We beg and plead with you to not consider this a "leak" to your organization. These "leaks" will arrive to you though regular channels. As you may have received several thousand e-mails we ask that you forget everything that you read and delete everything. If you print a story about this and decide to publish some example e-mails, please contact us as we will help you find some really juicy e-mails. Again, we did not do this on purpose.

    Since our e-mail servers are already having some serious problems, if you are not the intended recipient, please discard this e-mail immediately. We do not have any serious problems with our e-mail servers. If this is the tourism site again, please redirect these e-mails to major news organizations - and then delete.

    Thank you,
    US Air Force

  10. Join the Air Force! by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We fuck up more before 8 a.m than most people fuck up all day.

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  11. Military intelligence, it would seem.. by the_rajah · · Score: 3, Funny

    is still an oxymoron.

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  12. Re:You're crazy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I for one welcome our new judge-shooting president...