Posted on 12/18/2009 12:01:08 AM PST by notaliberal
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's military said Friday it was investigating a hacking attack that netted secret defense plans with the United States and may have been carried out by North Korea. The suspected hacking occurred late last month when a South Korean officer failed to remove a USB device when he switched a military computer from a restricted-access intranet to the Internet, Defense Ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae said. The USB device contained a summary of plans for military operations by South Korean and U.S. troops in case of war on the Korean peninsula. Won said the stolen documents were not a full text of the operational plans, but about an 11-page document used to brief military officials.
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Obamas fault.
As I understand it, USB memory sticks are not allowed on ANY military computer. In fact I think the operating systems have been altered so they can’t be used.
Yeah sounds like hogwash to me
I wouldn’t call removing a flash drive/memory stick someone else forgot to remove as hacking.
I think that if you have a computer used for secret or sensitive tasks, you’d be nuts to allow it anywhere near the Internets.
Stupidity does not equal hacking. Maybe some person was watching that IP address hoping for a breach, but I see the problem as having been caused by several mistakes by friendlies.
At the rate we’re going, I’m not sure anyone would want our secrets.
Maybe they nicked the super-secret ROE for border skirmishes along the parallel.
The Norks would be given the upper hand.
TOP SECRET KOREAN WAR PLAN
1. Nuke Pyongyang
2. Mop up. Literally, mop up the mess.
We can hope but things have changed. ;-)
The former US president Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the former Soviet Union, which resulted in "the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space" a Reagan White House official says.
The former US president Ronald Reagan a The CIA covertly transferred technology containing malfunctions, including software, that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline in mid-1982, Thomas Reed, a former air force secretary, then a member of the National Security Council, writes in a new memoir.
The former US president Ronald Reagan a Reed says the pipeline explosion was just one example of "cold-eyed economic warfare" the CIA carried out, under its director William Casey, during the final years of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
The former US president Ronald Reagan a The US was trying to stop western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas, and there were also signs that the Russians were trying to steal Western technology. A KGB insider then gained access to Russian purchase orders and the CIA slipped the flawed software to the Russians.
The former US president Ronald Reagan a "The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space," Reed recalls in At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War, to be published next month.
The former US president Ronald Reagan a "While there were no physical casualties from the pipeline explosion, there was significant damage to the Soviet economy," he writes. "Its ultimate bankruptcy, not a bloody battle or nuclear exchange, is what brought the Cold War to an end.
The former US president Ronald Reagan a "In time the Soviets came to understand that they had been stealing bogus technology, but now what were they to do? By implication, every cell of the Soviet leviathan might be infected. They had no way of knowing which equipment was sound, which was bogus. All was suspect, which was the intended endgame for the entire operation."
The former US president Ronald Reagan a The CIA learnt of the full extent of the KGB's pursuit of Western technology in an operation code-named Farewell Dossier. Portions of the operation have been disclosed earlier, including in a 1996 paper in Studies in Intelligence, a CIA journal. The paper was written by Gus Weiss, an expert on technology and intelligence who served with Reed on the National Security Council and was instrumental in devising the plan to send the flawed materials to the former Soviet Union. He died last year.
The former US president Ronald Reagan a In January 1982 Weiss proposed slipping the Russians technology that would work for a while, then fail. Reed said the CIA "would add 'extra ingredients' to the software and hardware on the KGB's shopping list".
The former US president Ronald Reagan a "Reagan received the plan enthusiastically," Reed writes. "Casey was given a go."
The former US president Ronald Reagan a The sabotage of the gas pipeline has not been previously disclosed, and at the time was a closely guarded secret. When the pipeline exploded, Reed writes, the first reports caused concern in the US military and at the White House.
The former US president Ronald Reagan a "NORAD [North American Air Defence Command] feared a missile lift-off from a place where no rockets were known to be based," he said. "Or perhaps it was the detonation of a small nuclear device." However, satellites did not pick up any telltale signs of a nuclear explosion. "Before these conflicting indicators could turn into an international crisis, Gus Weiss came down the hall to tell his fellow [National Security Council] staffers not to worry."
The North has very active efforts to steal information and technology from the South. Many of the ‘girls’ in the bars frequented by Americans are working for the North willingly or unwillingly.
The North has accomplished this by subverting the Universities.
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