Milley's military is blundering again -- misrouting sensitive U.S. military communications to some web operator in ... Mali

American Thinker ^ | 07/17/2023 | Monica Showalter

[DFG]

Who needs enemies when you've got Gen. Mark Milley running the Pentagon?

Here's the latest military fiasco on his watch, as reported by the Financial Times

Millions of US military emails were misrouted to Mali by a “typographical leak” that exposed highly sensitive information, including diplomatic documents, tax returns, passwords and travel details of senior officers.

Despite repeated warnings over a decade, the steady stream of email traffic to the .ML domain, the country identifier for Mali, continues to be the result of people mistyping .MIL, the suffix for all US military email addresses.

The problem was first identified nearly a decade ago by Johannes Zurber, a Dutch internet entrepreneur who has a contract to manage the country domain in Mali.

Zuurbier has been collecting misleading emails since January in an effort to persuade the US to take this issue seriously. He has nearly 117,000 misdirected messages — about 1,000 arrived on Wednesday alone. In a letter to the United States in early July, Zurber wrote: “This danger is real and can be exploited by enemies of the United States.”

[freeandfreezing]

there's big money in information espionage these days

There is more money in providing IT services to the US government.

"The U.S. State Department, NASA and the Army also have moved some of their email services to Gmail."

"Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a global infrastructure and secure, scalable, and mission-focused solutions that helps the Department of Defense (DoD) meet mission, drive efficiencies, increase innovation, and secure critical workloads."

Does that help clarify the situation?

[eyeamok]

Sounds like he was Trafficking Classified and Sensitive Documents... ESPIONAGE ACT, ARREST AND PROSECUTE

NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW

[freeandfreezing]

And what are the odds Chinese intelligence agents own the Mali site (and others around the world) to collect US military data and have agents in DOD in positions to route correspondence to them?

Look at the DNS data. Pretty low chance of your theory being correct.

[sauropod]

Bkmk.

[minnesota_bound]

An easy fix but the military is not capable of fixing this.