Canadian Spying Case Proves Floppy Drive Isn't Dead Yet

An anonymous reader writes "The details of a Canadian spying case are coming to light, including the method of copying the sensitive data from the 'secured' computer linking five countries and the Russian handlers: Copy Data into Notepad; Save File to Floppy Drive; USB Key; ???; Profit! For $3000/mo in prepaid credit cards and wire transfers."

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Re:What secrets do the Canadians have? Maple syrup

[Anonymous Coward]

Canada and the US have several joint RADAR installations in the arctic.

Re:What secrets do the Canadians have? Maple syrup

[Antipater]

In World War I, a war where battles would often be counted as a loss by both sides, the Canadians never lost a battle. By the end of the war, the Germans had a network of spies dedicated to finding out what part of the line the Canadians were being sent to, because that was where the next attack would come from.

In World War II, the influx of volunteer Canadian pilots kept the RAF from being attritted into nothingness during the Battle of Britain. On D-Day, the Canadians at Juno Beach faced stiffer resistance than any other beachhead except Omaha - by day's end they had penetrated deeper into France than any of the other four beachheads. Later, it was the Canadians who drove the German Fifteenth Army, at that time the last fully cohesive German unit in the region, off their superbly-fortified position overlooking (and denying naval access to) the port of Antwerp, which the Allies desperately needed for supplies and which the British had failed to open.

You can joke all you want, but you seriously don't want to fuck with the Canadian military (and no, I'm not Canadian).

Re:What secrets do the Canadians have? Maple syrup

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Canadian Fan.

Have you ever heard of the Dieppe Raid?

Sincerely,

A Canadian

Re:What secrets do the Canadians have? Maple syrup

[Anonymous Coward]

He had access to Stone Ghost: "It's a computer system that links the five eyes. The five eyes are the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. All their information is shared on the Stone Ghost computer." (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/10/10/ns-delisle-spy-hearing.html) So it's not just Canadian secrets.

Re:Make fun of them all you want.

[Anonymous Coward]

I know it's hard for people to actually be informed on topics before they speak, but you may want to research how in the past decade or so Canada has very much gone from a "peace keeper" to a "peace maker". They were one of the first countries pushing for military intervention in Libya and their conservative government is only going to continue that going forward.

Re:What secrets do the Canadians have? Maple syrup

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the Polish and New Zealander's would like to discuss who "kept the RAF from being attritted into nothingness". And I'm pretty sure the British would not consider having around 1900 of their 2350 pilots left at the end of the Battle of Britain as being "attritted into nothingness".

I don't see how triumphant and selective reporting of war time events is any better coming from Canadians than it is from Americans.

Re:So...

[Beardo the Bearded]

No.

I work with point clouds for scanning military vessels. That's what the data on the screen in Star Wars shows, point clouds.

Each compartment IRL is a couple of GB of data. The Death star, assuming 1000 compartments, would require several Terabytes of point cloud information in order for it to be useful to the Alliance. We have trouble moving individual compartments around our 1000 Network and it's just easier to move stuff around on portable hard drives.