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The spy secrets in the phone booth
From: William Knowles <erehwon () KIZMIAZ DIS ORG>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:30:53 -0800
http://www.globeandmail.com/gam/National/19991118/USPYSN.html (Globe and Mail) [11.18.99] A Toronto man who found a Canadian Security Intelligence Service computer diskette in a telephone booth says it detailed -- in plain English -- the names of confidential informants and contacts, information about the service's targets and covert operations in Canada and details about espionage training exercises. "The more I looked, the more I realized that this was very, very, sensitive stuff," the man told The Globe and Mail yesterday in his first interview about the diskette mishap, which took place in 1996. "This is amazing, I thought." Federal government sources confirmed many details of the man's account. [...] == Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it. -- Adm. Grace Murray Hopper, USN Ret. == http://www.dis.org/erehwon/ ISN is sponsored by Security-Focus.COM
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