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

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

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

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

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  4. 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!

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

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

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

    is still an oxymoron.

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