Typo?..........................No.............
Posted on 07/17/2023 6:14:48 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Millions of US military emails have been mistakenly sent to Mali, a Russian ally, because of a minor typing error.
Emails intended for the US military's ".mil" domain have, for years, been sent to the west African country which ends with the ".ml" suffix.
Some of the emails reportedly contained sensitive information such as passwords, medical records and the itineraries of top officers.
According to the Financial Times, which first reported the story, Dutch internet entrepreneur Johannes Zuurbier identified the problem more than 10 years ago.
Since 2013, he has had a contract to manage Mali's country domain and, in recent months, has reportedly collected tens of thousands of misdirected emails.
...According to the newspaper, they included medical data, maps of US military facilities, financial records and the planning documents for official trips as well as some diplomatic messages.
But Steven Stransky, a lawyer who previously served as senior counsel to the Department of Homeland Security's Intelligence Law Division, said that even seemingly harmless information could prove useful to US adversaries, particularly if it included details of individual personnel.
"Those sorts of communications would mean that a foreign actor can start building dossiers on our own military personnel, for espionage purposes, or could try to get them to disclose information in exchange for financial benefit," Mr Stransky said. "It's certainly information that a foreign government can use."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Oh isn’t that convenient 🙄
It was no accident.
It figures, in Prog Socialist Democrat America, the Military are entirely expendable.
Bidens wrong, F-15’s are not needed to defeat our military.
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Yep.
Typo... Sure it was.
How much did the Bidens get fro Russia and Ukraine again?
Typo?..........................No.............
“Well, when it comes to these transgenders, you might not want to know.....LOL.”
Yeah; no kidding.
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