Posted on 12/02/2010 7:53:27 PM PST by gitmo
It wasnt an insecure SIPRNet that created the perfect storm that allowed Private Bradley Manning to dump the State Department cables to Wikileaks. It was the failure of our government to apply standard IT practices in a theater of war.
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So if SIPRNet is secure, and with the NetTop 2 environment its impossible to copy data off to a USB flash drive or a DVD from a secure session, how the heck was Manning able to dump that data to Wikileaks?
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But according to a Wired article from over the summer, we know exactly what went wrong:
As described by Manning in his chats with Lamo, his purported leaking was made possible by lax security online and off.==SNIP==
Manning had access to two classified networks from two separate secured laptops: SIPRNET, the Secret-level network used by the Department of Defense and the State Department, and the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System which serves both agencies at the Top Secret/SCI level. 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 Gagas 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at zdnet.com ...
Lady Gaga?
We should have asked. He would have told.
I am a bad person. I want to see that treasonous little $**t dead. Tried, convicted and executed.
This resulted in a chink in the armor that was exposed to the wrong type of person a mentally unstable, angry young 22-year old Army Private who had carte blanche capability to copy and suck down everything from SIPRNet and the JWICS that he could get his grubby little hands on.
Manning's Commanding Officer needs to be court-marshaled !
Having friends in IT Security, this isn’t surprising.
Two things come to mind when ever I think of this guy
1. Lee Harvey Oswald
2. The Net - Sandra Bullock
Somethings just not right.
A fruity PFC somewhere will safegurad it...
One pissed off gay soldier did the espionage, and now Gates wants all the soldiers to be gay.
Well, from the Gates's point of view, that does solve the DADT problem.
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