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Employees of Tiversa, a security company that specializes in peer-to-peer technology, reportedly found engineering and communications information about Marine One at an IP address in Tehran, Iran.
Bob Boback, CEO of Tiversa, told WPXI-TV: “We found a file containing entire blueprints and avionics package for Marine One, which is the president’s helicopter.”
The company was able to trace the file back to its original source.
“What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, Md., had a file-sharing program on one of their systems that also contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One,” Boback said. Tiversa also found sensitive financial information about the cost of the helicopter on that same computer,
Someone from the company most likely downloaded a file-sharing program, typically used to exchange music, not realizing the potential problems, Boback said.
A few Web-ignorant ideologues have announced this was Iran’s government “hacking” into U.S. secrets. No doubt the “enemy” source in Iran was another file-sharing geek as ignorant of security requirements as the unnamed Pentagon contractor’s IT department.
There is no patch for stupidity.
sooooo lets see a defense contractor with sesitive material has no security policy…??? hhmmm something aint right here…
Isn’t this TREASON on somebody’s fault at least?
Stupidity or whatever… It’s not an excuse.
There is no patch for stupidity.
Well, there is, but the FDA hasn’t approved it for general use yet. Trials on the conservative test subjects during the November elections had very conflicting data.
Currently they are working to see whether the problem was the dosage or if sometimes stupid is forever.
Management or the IT,
that DONT KNOW TECH..
With all the SMART people on this site, WHY ARENT we hired to run these system and networks??
Probably do it at 1/2 the price and still live VERY WELL..
Idiots, hiring idiots, making IDIOT decisions..
The bigger question. Why was an unclass machine housing sensitive blueprints to Marine One OR Why was a classified machine connected to the public internet? Either one of those is the failure of an IG to ensure data security/SCIF protocols.
A patch for stupidity? How ’bout some nuclear-strength duct tape across the nose and mouth? Problem solved!
I have one question. Were these plans from the old VH-3 helcopter (which is being phased out) or the new VH-71 (that is currently under development)?
If it is for the VH-71 then it will only give opponents of the President’s new helicopter fleet one more reason to call for its cancellation. If it is for the VH-3 then it will give proponents of the VH-71 more reason to argue for its continuation & development and could be used to possibly accelerate its delivery schedule.
If that is scary, read this article about how our military equipment and info “falls off of trucks” in Pakistan while being shipped to Afghanistan. The military laptop full of information the guy finds at a bazaar there is very disturbing.
http://tinyurl.com/dzayy9
@3 The potshots at conservatives is getting really old on this site.
Next thing you know they’ll be telling us that using P2P helps Osama Bin Laden.
9,
2 points..
1. THEY NEED TO BLAME SOMEONE, and they like conservatives ALLOT. HITLER DID.
2. Comments that are Nonconstructive, should be labeled COMEDY RELIEF.
the idea that OLD MEN from 1 group of 2 groups MIGHT be smarter then the other, is WISHFUL THINKING…
There are NEVER 2 sides to a problem, and NEVER 1 solution to a problem.
the problem HERE, comes with THOSE you WANT to live with.
Lets ask each party, “HOW MANY Computer Literate persons are HERE” I will bet its LESS THEN 10 in each group.
Now Literate is a BIG word to myself, about computers. NOT a GEEK..Some one that KNOWS how windows works, Linux works, MAC works, and a GOOD share of the versions, would IMPRESS ME.. And with that understanding, I DONT think you will find 1 person in BOTH groups.
Maybe the RIAA could look into this P2P thing, see what they can do to clean up the problem.
# 2 Bill said, “Isn’t this TREASON on somebody’s fault at least?”
No. Giving out military secrets isn’t treason.
Private contractors can be so annoying. We have a guy that just can’t stop putting kazaa on his machine. I guess he needs his porn and mp3’s and we can’t fire him.
# 15 Rick Cain said, “Private contractors can be so annoying.”
They can be. Are you a gov’t employee?