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U.S. Military Secrets for Sale at Afghan Bazaar
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:05:20 -0400 (EDT)
Via Bruce Schneier's weblog: http://www.schneier.com/blog/ http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-disks10apr10,0,5854905,full.story By Paul Watson, Times Staff Writer April 10, 2006 BAGRAM, Afghanistan - No more than 200 yards from the main gate of the sprawling U.S. base here, stolen computer drives containing classified military assessments of enemy targets, names of corrupt Afghan officials and descriptions of American defenses are on sale in the local bazaar. Shop owners at the bazaar say Afghan cleaners, garbage collectors and other workers from the base arrive each day offering purloined goods, including knives, watches, refrigerators, packets of Viagra and flash memory drives taken from military laptops. The drives, smaller than a pack of chewing gum, are sold as used equipment. The thefts of computer drives have the potential to expose military secrets as well as Social Security numbers and other identifying information of military personnel. ... The drives also included deployment rosters and other documents that identified nearly 700 U.S. service members and their Social Security numbers, information that identity thieves could use to open credit card accounts in soldiers' names. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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