Posted on 11/29/2010 8:24:00 AM PST by Rutles4Ever
It was childishly easy, according to the published chatlog of a conversation Manning had with a fellow-hacker. "I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like 'Lady Gaga' … erase the music … then write a compressed split file. No one suspected a thing ... [I] listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga's Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history." He said that he "had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months".
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At any rate, there's a name for the kind of guy that lip-synchs to Lady Gaga.
Flaming GAY!
Maintaining secrecy is essentially impossible in a digital world.
This is both good and bad.
This little queer needs to be left alone in a room full of Marines for about 5 minutes.
There is another name for an Army that lets a 20 year old waltz off with tons of data and doesn’t detect it at all.
I still don’t understand how a low-level enlisted punk like this had access to so much classified info. When I was in the military, there was a “need to know” provision. You only had access if you had the appropriate level of security clearance and “the need to know” this information for your job.
Wasn’t ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ offered as the reason for the treason?
We need to make more of the fact that, if the government can’t even protect it’s own SECRET material, we can’t let them NEAR our medical records.
The kid was clearly gay. And, he lived the kind of lifestyle prior to enlisting that was clearly homosexual. How did he pass a background check which would have presumably included field interviews because he clearly had top-secret clearance? Did not a single red-flag go up about this kid’s sexuality during the security screening process?
Was there any security at all? An army private had unfettered access? Wow, what is going on?
Why is that?
Maybe guys with super-Crays can eventually break encryption codes, but I doubt the Wikileaks folks can. If they could you would also be seeing all sorts of corporate data floating around, but you don't.
My guess is that if I sent you a simply encrypted file of two different letters from Thomas Jefferson to someone else (so you would know what you were looking for) that you wouldn't be able to tell me within a year what those letters were.
ML/NJ
This is a gigantic Lady Gaga P.R. stunt.
Mike
If he was in telecomm ratings he dealt with processing message traffic all the time and would have access.
Sounds like there was no such security here.
Nonsense. Digital communications are much, much safer and much, much harder to break into, if you want it to be......
They can’t protect America’s secret information but they WILL AND CAN protect Obama’s personal documents. There is something really wrong here.
Gay spy from Oklahoma!
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