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How 250,000 US embassy cables were leaked
The Guardian UK ^
| 11/28/2010
| David Leigh
Posted on 11/29/2010 8:24:00 AM PST by Rutles4Ever
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Didn't see this posted.
At any rate, there's a name for the kind of guy that lip-synchs to Lady Gaga.
To: Rutles4Ever
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posted on
11/29/2010 8:25:32 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Rutles4Ever
Maintaining secrecy is essentially impossible in a digital world.
This is both good and bad.
To: Rutles4Ever
This little queer needs to be left alone in a room full of Marines for about 5 minutes.
To: Rutles4Ever
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.
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posted on
11/29/2010 8:28:08 AM PST
by
Eyes Unclouded
("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
To: Rutles4Ever
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.
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posted on
11/29/2010 8:28:09 AM PST
by
Signalman
To: Rutles4Ever
Wasn’t ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ offered as the reason for the treason?
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posted on
11/29/2010 8:31:03 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: Rutles4Ever
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.
To: Rutles4Ever
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?
To: Eyes Unclouded
He was allowed to come it with a RW CD? The computer he was using had a CD writer drive? He had unlimitied acces to thousands of diplomatic cables? Something about this is very fishy....we need to know who was in charge of security and what they were thinking. This happened on Hillary's watch, and I'm sure it's up to her to get to the bottom of this.
Was there any security at all? An army private had unfettered access? Wow, what is going on?
To: Sherman Logan
Maintaining secrecy is essentially impossible in a digital world. 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
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posted on
11/29/2010 8:35:16 AM PST
by
ml/nj
To: Rutles4Ever
This is a gigantic Lady Gaga P.R. stunt.
To: Signalman
Need to know...ditto that!
Mike
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posted on
11/29/2010 8:38:13 AM PST
by
MichaelP
(It's the end of the world as they know it, and I'm so glad!)
To: Signalman
If he was in telecomm ratings he dealt with processing message traffic all the time and would have access.
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posted on
11/29/2010 8:38:39 AM PST
by
reed13
To: OldDeckHand
Did not a single red-flag go up about this kids sexuality
We're still allowed to do that??
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posted on
11/29/2010 8:39:06 AM PST
by
Genoa
(Put the kettle on!)
To: The_Media_never_lie
I went to a training seminar at a company who's stock had gone from $100 per share to $2 a share a few years earlier. Needless to say, there were some employees who had company stock retirement plans who were virtually wiped out. Due to the presence of disgruntled employees, none of the computers at this company had any read/writable drives that could be accessed in the non-secure area. I am certain that the computers that had read/write capabilities were much more secure and had strict controls on access.
Sounds like there was no such security here.
To: Sherman Logan
Maintaining secrecy is essentially impossible in a digital world. Nonsense. Digital communications are much, much safer and much, much harder to break into, if you want it to be......
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posted on
11/29/2010 8:39:28 AM PST
by
Thermalseeker
(Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
To: Rutles4Ever
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posted on
11/29/2010 8:39:35 AM PST
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
To: Rutles4Ever
They can’t protect America’s secret information but they WILL AND CAN protect Obama’s personal documents. There is something really wrong here.
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posted on
11/29/2010 8:39:53 AM PST
by
bergmeid
(I want profiling and I want it NOW!)
To: Rutles4Ever; Ann Archy
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posted on
11/29/2010 8:41:05 AM PST
by
dragnet2
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