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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. Re:The Airforce... by megla · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm guessing being emailed confidential deployment plans and the route for Airforce 1 would get them off to a good start!

  2. I have call this one BS by Perl-Pusher · · Score: 5, Informative

    I spent 20 years in the Air Force. All DOD domains end in .mil not .com. We only have this persons word, didn't see one example. Flight plans via email. Crap! the DOD uses a device called KG-58 its an encryption device. The key is sent via courier every month. That is the only approved way to send any sensitive information.

    "It had the notice 'Destroy by any means to prevent capture'," Right, that's absolute crap. One that is not the correct wording. Two its an electronic message, its on your hard drive. Did his computer explode after reading it? I'm sure there are idiots who sent things to his domain. But these just could not be official communications. There are way too many safeguards in place.

    People from government ministry of finance offices in African Nations are always send me stuff too.

    Lets see some real proof!