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Canadian Spying Case Proves Floppy Drive Isn't Dead Yet

Posted by timothy on from the who-spies-on-canada?! dept.

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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  1. Make fun of them all you want. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But frankly, the fact that they aren't blowing billions of dollars on having bases in the Middle East, supporting an "ally" that stabs them in the back every chance they get while still doing things that stir up trouible - like stealing other people's land, and the fact that I've never heard protestors in a Muslim country yell, "Death to Cananda!" or a Latin/South American say something bad about a Canadian.

    If it weren't for us, the US, I bet their lives would be much more peaceful.

    I'll take their problems anyday.

    1. Re:Make fun of them all you want. by interval1066 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_role_in_the_Afghanistan_War

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    2. Re:Make fun of them all you want. by Dishevel · · Score: 4, Insightful

      To be fair. It is not at all a forgone conclusion that if the US were to not do these things that other countries would not have to step up their defense spending.
      I think that the US having to spend all this money allows allies to spend considerably less.

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    3. Re:Make fun of them all you want. by daem0n1x · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I live in one of those "other countries". As far as I'm concerned, we don't need any of your "defence spending", so feel free to cut it as much as you want. I'm pretty sure a few billion people agree with me.

      The only thing your "defence spending" is defending is the big pockets of the military-industrial complex.

    4. Re:Make fun of them all you want. by DarthVain · · Score: 4, Insightful

      We only told Bush to go to hell when they wanted us to help invade Iraq for weapons of mass destruction. When the US and the UN asked us to go to Afghanistan we agreed.

      However note, our current conservative government wanted to go to Iraq also but didn't have power then.

      As to the whole "Death to Canada" thing, I would like to think it is because we are nice people, but more than likely we are just insignificant compared to the US in world influance. :(

    5. Re:Make fun of them all you want. by dintech · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What exactly is the value of having allies with a tiny fraction of our military capability?

      Because not all conflict needs to be resolved militarily?

  2. Risk mitigation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    TO ALL EMPLOYEES:

    Effective immediately, all documents must be at least 1.46 MB in size.

    - The mgmt

    P.S. Nobody even THINK about installing PKZIP, k?

  3. Re:What secrets do the Canadians have? Maple syrup by Antipater · · Score: 5, Informative
    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).

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  4. False flag? by Russ1642 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is it just me or does the author not know what false flag means?

  5. Re:What secrets do the Canadians have? Maple syrup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well put, Antipater. Nice to see someone who studies real history, not just the US classroom version!

    Although, you could have mentioned how we kicked Yankee arse in 1812.....

  6. Re:So... by flyingsquid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The internet has definitely changed the espionage game. If you think about it, the entire premise of Star Wars falls apart completely in an internet society. The movie starts out with Vader trying to recover the plans for the Death Star which are stored on R2D2, and then the entire middle of the movie involves trying to physically transport R2 to the Rebels to allow them to stage an attack. If the Empire had internet, then the rebel spies would have just uploaded the plans for the Death Star to the Rebel Alliance, and you'd skip straight to the final scene of the movie.

  7. Re:What secrets do the Canadians have? Maple syrup by mister_playboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Although, you could have mentioned how we kicked Yankee arse in 1812.....

    Canada wasn't a country until 1867.

    We'll liberate you yet, don't worry. Most of you have placed yourself in easy reach along the border already... :)

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