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Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing
Hugh Pickens writes "A company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks has discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Barack Obama's helicopter. 'We found a file containing entire blueprints and avionics package for Marine One, which is the president's helicopter,' says Bob Boback, CEO of Tiversa, a security company that specializes in peer-to-peer technology. Tiversa was able to track the file, discovered at an IP address in Tehran, Iran, back to its original source. 'What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, Md., had a file-sharing program on one of their systems that also contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One,' says Boback, adding that someone from the company most likely downloaded a file-sharing program, typically used to exchange music, without realizing the potential problems. 'I'm sure that person is embarrassed and may even lose their job, but we know where it came from and we know where it went.' Iran is not the only country that appears to be accessing this type of information through file-sharing programs. 'We've noticed it out of Pakistan, Yemen, Qatar and China. They are actively searching for information that is disclosed in this fashion because it is a great source of intelligence.'"
1b. the idiot admin that had not removed user ability to install random software on a work computer...
comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
6. people who think that 'anything but Windows' is automatically secure.
This is a straw man argument.
Nobody's claiming another OS is ALWAYS secure.
What they are saying is why the hell would you deliberately use an OS with a terrbile security track record that is difficult to secure.
To use the claasic "car analogy" it's like driving around in a smashed-up pinto versus a brand-new Volvo. If you're worried about surviving an accident the choice of vehicles is obvious. Even more so in the case of software since the price differential is much smaller.
Life is too short to proofread.
I find your lack of faith disturbing...
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
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