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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Make fun of them all you want.

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Make fun of them all you want.

[daem0n1x]

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.

Risk mitigation

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

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).