Shock and Awe
Richi Jennings has been pulling blogwatch duty over at Computerworld.com and put together a sampling of the stories being published about the recent The U.S. Air Force screw up that led to classified data being sent to a small town in the U.K. in unencrypted email.
There’s quite a few articles on the SNAFU but perhaps Tom Chivers describes it best in his article for the Telegraph.
A tourist information website promoting a small [English] town has had to shut down after it received a barrage of thousands of classified US military emails … Sensitive information … swamped Gary Sinnott’s email inbox after he established www.mildenhall.com, a site promoting the tiny town of Mildenhall where he lives … Mildenhall [also] is home to a huge US Air Force base … Mr Sinnott said: “You wouldn’t believe some of the stuff that I have been receiving - I wonder if they ever had any security training … then I began to receive military communications from all over the world - a lot containing very sensitive information.
Click here for the full blogwatch rundown.
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