The interconnective nature of the internet has done amazing things for the media world and for the educational world, but it can go too far. We all know identity theft has been a problem for the average everyday American. This can be a real pain, but for the most part you can bounce back. It was revealed last week that the plans for the President Obama’s Marine One had been downloaded into a computer in Iran. The whole schematics of the new helicopter had been revealed.
Apparently a defense contractor was using Limewire on their computer and gave others all access to the files on his computer. I could just see a teenage kid doing this on their parent’s laptop and their parents catching the grief from it. Computers with access to critical American documents that deal with American security should not be hooked up to the regular internet, let alone file sharing programs. A big time oops.
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Ouch. I hadn't heard about this security breach. I would think that defense contractors would be given training/requirements for maintaining security. On a plane a while back, I sat next to a military guy posted at the Pentagon, and it took him nearly an hour to log into his Pentagon email from his laptop because of all of the security checks he had to work through. Limewire and open access. Duh.
ReplyDeleteIs this one of the helicopters that Obama had already said that he didn't need and had crossed out of the budget?
Judy, maybe the reason the military guy took so long to long in was because he wasn't supposed to be on the internet on the airplane. Maybe the airplane controls were jamming his computer--hopefully, not the other way around.
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