‘Sensitive’ Obama helicopter data online
p2pnet news view P2P | Security:- “Extremely large companies with very sophisticated IT systems have been victim to sensitive and costly P2P disclosures (such as Pfizer, ABN AMRO, Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, etc.) and few if any organizations are immune to its risk.”
And that includes the White House, says the promo blurb for Tiversa, a company which deals in security risks and among other things, monitors P2P networks
An employee found ” sensitive” documents on Marine One, the presidential chopper, while he was scanning file sharing networks, says Pittsburgh TV station WPXI, which broke the story.
There was also financial information, it says
And according to WPXI, the data were on a system in Tehran.
It has Bobak saying he doesn’t know exactly how sensitive the information is, but he’s sure of one thing: it shouldn’t have been on a computer in Iran.
He also says countries such as China routinely surf the Net looking for these kinds of security breaches.
WPXI – Possible Threat To Obama’s Security Discovered, February 28, 2009
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March 2nd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Now, THIS is interesting:
1. Here we have another company jumping on the latest moral panic — p2p technology. This seriously implies to me that these people are probably weasels of some kind. They “monitor” p2p networks? I thought surveillance and Big-Brotherism was Government’s job? (Oh wait, I forgot — Bush “outsourced” the beat-and-kill-unarmed-civilians thing to Blackwater International. Ain’t the “free market” fun, tho?)
2. Pardon me for being skeptical/unimpressed about the “sensitive” helicopter data in Tehran. I realize this was supposed to dissapear into the “memory hole”, but Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and a significant portion of the “madmen in dirty nightshirts” (as conservative talk-show jackass Michael Savage put it) were “our boys” back when “we” considered them useful against the Soviet Union.
So I’m not particularly surprised that “sensitive” data showed up. Maybe one of their CIA handlers accidentally left his Blackberry or something.
3 Anybody heard anything about “Clouseau” recently?
March 4th, 2009 at 11:28 am
And here’s another example as to why these file sharing programs should be banned, if you guys dont agree to that… then you HAVE to consider shutting down the internets, its the only logical solution I tell you.
/Cary Sherman
P.S Dan Glickman agrees with me as well.