Note To Self: Don't Store Top Secret Military Data In Porn Folder

from the just-a-suggestion dept

While the US gov’t may have trouble keeping track of important computers with sensitive information, there’s just something extra special about the way top secret information leaks in Japan. There were, of course, the nuclear secrets leaked via a file sharing program, after an outside contractor was allowed to use his personal computer to store the documents. The latest seems almost as bizarre. Apparently top secret information on Aegis destroyers were passed among a few petty officers in Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force, after one such officer copied the porn directory from a colleague’s computer. This raises all sorts of questions, but the biggest one has to be: what person thinks that they’ll hide top secret military documents in a porn folder and assume that that’s the least likely place that people will end up looking?


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Harry Casimir (user link) says:

Done Once or Twice Without Failure is the Recipe F

It seems like people are very good at that, if they don’t get caught in the first few rounds, then they will continue to do what they do best and eventually get sloppy at it. Whether intentionally or not, people do get sloppy with things and that is what happen to the people in governments. Those people don’t even remember the oats they took before taking office/post, so make you think they will care for where they add stuff in a computer. lol

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