Extradition. Black ops. Something. This cretin needs to pay for this.
“This cretin needs to pay for this.”
Maybe we should thank him instead. And concentrate on finding the security breach.
“Extradition. Black ops. Something. This cretin needs to pay for this.”
Damage’s done already. Someone needs to go to jail, maybe this guy too, but after plenty of others do. Read this:
“Everywhere there’s a U.S. post, there’s a diplomatic scandal that will be revealed,” Manning wrote. “It’s open diplomacy. World-wide anarchy in CSV format. It’s Climategate with a global scope, and breathtaking depth. It’s beautiful, and horrifying.”
“Manning told Lamo that the Garani video was left accessible in a directory on a U.S. Central Command server, centcom.smil.mil, by officers who investigated the incident. The video, he said, was an encrypted AES-256 ZIP file.”
“The networks, he said, were both “air gapped” from unclassified networks, but the environment at the base made it easy to smuggle data out.
“I would come in with music on a CD-RW labeled with something like ‘Lady Gaga,’ erase the music then write a compressed split file,” he wrote. “No one suspected a thing and, odds are, they never will.”
“[I] listened and lip-synced to Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’ while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history,” he added later. ”Weak servers, weak logging, weak physical security, weak counter-intelligence, inattentive signal analysis … a perfect storm.”
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/
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WTF lets thousands of 20 year Army old kids access every single email, top secret cable and report from all over the world? he even burned them on a CD! Who trusts USA now with honest assessments?