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Federal Contractor Leaves Documents on Sidewalk


From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:40:28 -0500

 From the Idaho Busines Review
http://tinyurl.com/2zlfu2

People walking in front of the 8th Street Wine Co. in downtown Boise the 
morning of March 2 noticed three inconspicuous barrels sitting on the 
sidewalk. These barrels were full of thousands of sensitive documents 
belonging to the U.S. Air Force and to Science Applications 
International Corp. – the company responsible for moving them to the 
curb from an upstairs office on Broad Street.
...
Many of the documents were stamped with notices that they were not for 
public dissemination.
...
Science Applications International had also thrown out its own internal 
documents, including printed copies of e-mail and performance evaluations
...

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