So something like troop movements and strategic contingency plans - whereas the classified information would be about transgender promotions and the generals' lunch dates with defense contractors? :)
Over all of the years that I dealt with highly sensitive data and information; this type of material was known as “Unclassified Of Possible Intelligence Value”.
It was unclassified but it could be combined with other unclassified information and publicly available information to form assessments, reports, etc that when brought together provided sensitive and possibly classified information.
Collection of this type of information was common practice among all nations and private companies as well.
This was the reason that Tom Clancy was contacted when his first book, Red Storm Rising, was released. I read it and immediately recognized information and scenarios that I was aware of through highly classified sources. Clancy had collected this information legally and through unclassified sources and had as any good analyst would have done made deductions about strategic and tactical scenarios that played out in the book.
Personnel records.
The headline is misleading.
According to Hillary they could 5 years ago. A server in my bathroom was good enough and AWS is more secure than that. /sarc
It’s not just DoD. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is also hosting the Intelligence Community’s Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) secure cloud environment.
Article: This week, the Defense Department granted the cloud computing giant a provisional authorization to host Impact Level 5 workloads, which are the military and Pentagon’s most sensitive, unclassified information.
I just love it when the media lies with its headlines. I was imagining TS/SCI data on Amazon.
No. and No and No.
Note to Defense Department - make your own “cloud” AND SECURE IT FROM ALL OUTSIDE INTRUSION.
And people wonder how that POS treasonous eunuch Manning, heading to Harvard,was privy to an enormous cache of top secret information as a PFC!.
Betcha Amazon sells the info.