thedrifter
01-27-09, 06:52 AM
iSpy; or, The Only Thing More Embarrassing Is All Those Kelly Clarkson Songs
[Fred Schwarz]
NRO colleague Kevin Williamson passes along this item from Wired.com’s Danger Room:
It's like Burn After Reading, the latest Coen brothers' flick, come to life. Well, kinda sorta.
"A New Zealand man has found confidential United States military files on an MP3 player," the Age reports. He bought at an Oklahoma thrift shop, for less than ten bucks.
Chris Ogle wasn't looking for secrets during his little shopping trip, of course. But when he brought the player home and hooked it up, "he discovered a playlist he could never have imagined," New Zealand's TV One pants.
The sixty files included personal details of American soldiers, equipment data, and what "appears to be a mission briefing." Most of the info comes from 2005, however. And there are no report of truly secret squirrel material. So it may not be enough to get Brad Pitt or Frances McDormand involved in a down-under remake, alas.
I’m not sure what all this was doing on a soldier’s MP3 player, but the information it contained, mostly telephone and Social Security numbers, would probably not be of much use to a bunch of terrorists in the caves of Kandahar. So you have to figure the soldiers in question are pretty safe, unless this MP3 player falls into the hands of Code Pink.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/sensitive-army.html
Ellie
[Fred Schwarz]
NRO colleague Kevin Williamson passes along this item from Wired.com’s Danger Room:
It's like Burn After Reading, the latest Coen brothers' flick, come to life. Well, kinda sorta.
"A New Zealand man has found confidential United States military files on an MP3 player," the Age reports. He bought at an Oklahoma thrift shop, for less than ten bucks.
Chris Ogle wasn't looking for secrets during his little shopping trip, of course. But when he brought the player home and hooked it up, "he discovered a playlist he could never have imagined," New Zealand's TV One pants.
The sixty files included personal details of American soldiers, equipment data, and what "appears to be a mission briefing." Most of the info comes from 2005, however. And there are no report of truly secret squirrel material. So it may not be enough to get Brad Pitt or Frances McDormand involved in a down-under remake, alas.
I’m not sure what all this was doing on a soldier’s MP3 player, but the information it contained, mostly telephone and Social Security numbers, would probably not be of much use to a bunch of terrorists in the caves of Kandahar. So you have to figure the soldiers in question are pretty safe, unless this MP3 player falls into the hands of Code Pink.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/sensitive-army.html
Ellie