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

from the just-a-suggestion dept

Thu, Apr 5th 2007 10:45am — Mike Masnick

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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Stan Schroeder, 5 Apr 2007 @ 11:07am

a person with no knowledge of computers whatsoever
c:/temp - pass
c:/documents and settings - bah, boo-ring
c:/program files - ok, there's never anything here
c:/XXX HUGE TITS - honey, I might come late from work today, I have some thorough examination to do
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Harry Casimir, 5 Apr 2007 @ 11:29am

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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Papa Joe, 5 Apr 2007 @ 11:46am

They probably had the porn folder as a hidden one and figured it was just easy to dump it in there. They probably never realized that you can access hidden folders.
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GoblinJuice, 5 Apr 2007 @ 12:02pm

Just a folder? Not a dedicated drive? Slacker!
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Likwid, 5 Apr 2007 @ 1:07pm

I store mine on a NAS box with 1TB in RAID 5 and tape backups.

Top secret government data, that is... eherm...
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TomTheToe, 5 Apr 2007 @ 1:09pm

Re:Done Once or Twice Without Failure is the Recip
"Those people don't even remember the oats they took before taking office" Must be why we are talking about a bunch of jackasses. Ha.
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Anon Cow, 5 Apr 2007 @ 1:17pm

TrueCrypt

Use it or the next post like this will be about you...
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Kingcomtech, 5 Apr 2007 @ 1:52pm

Better Idea
He should have just created a file called Classified. That would have been less obvious.
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i am me, 5 Apr 2007 @ 2:03pm

uh oh

mv /home/geek/porn/topsecret/cia_undercovers.txt /home/geek/.nowitss3cur3/

ahhh i feel better
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even worse, 5 Apr 2007 @ 2:04pm

even worse..
Apparently the U.S. uses the same Aegis system as the Japanese.
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Anonymous Coward, 5 Apr 2007 @ 2:10pm

Dude
That's just so wrong, on so many levels.
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Forge, 5 Apr 2007 @ 2:34pm

Re: even worse..
We share a ton of tech and systems with them. It's a holdover from when we set them up a toy air force/navy/army after WW2, since we had blown the crap out of their previous ones.
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Blackjetta, 5 Apr 2007 @ 4:23pm

Re: a person with no knowledge of computers whatso
That's very funny
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Stute, 5 Apr 2007 @ 4:31pm

Couldn't be any better
Even if it was in a comedy movie.. Wow... Fantastic.
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Anonymous Coward, 23 May 2007 @ 2:03pm

Re: Re: a person with no knowledge of computers wh
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jik, 25 Sep 2008 @ 11:06pm

nonsense
Old Secret Documents!
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