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Top Defense Contractor Left Sensitive Pentagon Files on Amazon Server With No Password (gizmodo.com)
Sensitive files linked to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -- which works with the nation's intelligence agencies to analyze aerial data -- were apparently left on a public Amazon server by an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the nation's top defense contractors, reports Gizmodo. From the article: A cache of more than 60,000 files was discovered last week on a publicly accessible Amazon server, including passwords to a US government system containing sensitive information, and the security credentials of a lead senior engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton. What's more, the roughly 28GB of data contained at least a half dozen unencrypted passwords belonging to government contractors with Top Secret Facility Clearance. The exposed credentials could potentially grant their holders further access to repositories housing similarly sensitive government data. Countless references are made in the leaked files to the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which in March awarded Booz Allen an $86 million defense contract. Often referred to as the Pentagon's "mapmakers," the combat support agency works alongside the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Defense Intelligence Agency to collect and analyze geospatial data gathered by spy satellites and aerial drones. The NGA on Tuesday confirmed the leak to Gizmodo while stressing that no classified information had been disclosed.
Accidentally, on porpoise?
> . . . an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton
Isn't that the company Snowden worked for?
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
The actual Hillary defense would hold up quite well, and always will: you have more dirt on everyone important involved in the process than what you're accused of. Hard to pull off if you weren't recently married to someone with access to the classified dossiers of every congresscritter and senior bureaucrat, however.
Heck, the only reason Obama was able to take the primary was that he came out of nowhere, so the Clintons didn't have any dirt on him.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.