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CentCom Laptops Missing From HQ
The Tampa Tribune ^
| Aug 7, 2002
| GEORGE CORYELL and LENNY SAVINO
Posted on 08/07/2002 8:32:06 AM PDT by Freebird Forever
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Don't know what to say about this.
Hate to think we've got traitors at MacDill.
To: Freebird Forever
Two simple rules:
1. No agency that works with secrets should have laptops.
2. Top secret computers should not be hooked up to the internet in any way.
I don't know what the problem is with this.
To: Freebird Forever
Better check with this 'dude'. He may be a material witness on those laptops.
To: AmericanInTokyo
Dude! You're getting a McDell.
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posted on
08/07/2002 8:38:26 AM PDT
by
TxBec
To: Freebird Forever
There are traitors in EVERY branch of government. Time to start giving lie detector tests to the persons who lost their lap tops.
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posted on
08/07/2002 8:40:01 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
To: OldFriend
Agreed!
To: Freebird Forever
Sounds like Osama bin Laden has been ladened as in Weighted down with a heavy load disinformation.
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posted on
08/07/2002 8:48:24 AM PDT
by
hflynn
To: Rodney King
Bingo! We have a winner!
Anyone who doesn't understand that, doesn't understand InfoSec 101.
BTW, you're not the guy in the cube two rows over, are you?
To: hflynn
Military leaders and strategists from coalition forces from the Mid- East and Europe occupy trailers next to CentCom's headquarters building. I think the answer is in the above sentence. Our gallant Arab allies or the Euro-weenies, which one is more likely to have an Iraq or Al Qaeda sympathizer? Used to be that the answer was obvious: The Arabs. But lately you can't count out the Euros.
To: Freebird Forever
Unreal...more incompetence
To: Rodney King
If I shop at Home Depot, and they want to protect their $59.00 electric drill, they lock this little $1.00 wire thingy on the drill. When I leave Home Depot and they forgot to deactivate the 1/10th of a cent microchip inside the package, it sets off the alarm.
Is the government so far out of control that it can't provide any security to sensitive assets??
Or, don't they care to protect secrets, as the Congress will leak them to the world anyway??
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posted on
08/07/2002 8:57:44 AM PDT
by
aShepard
To: Rodney King
AGREED!
Anyone listening?... Please follow these Two simple rules:
1. No agency that works with secrets should have laptops.
2. Top secret computers should not be hooked up to the internet in any way.
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posted on
08/07/2002 8:58:00 AM PDT
by
vannrox
To: FreedomPoster
Nope. I'm at home.
To: Freebird Forever
Don't forget that USF, about 10 miles north of MacDill AFB, is a hotbed of Islamic militancy!
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posted on
08/07/2002 9:00:47 AM PDT
by
doc30
To: Freebird Forever
Does this explain the leaks?
To: vannrox
apparently this must be in some rule book, that no one dealing in secrets should have a laptop. Maybe we should add another rule. Like all persons dealing in secrets must have thier tongues cut out. Lets think a moment shall we? Is a secret any safer in a desktop? on a note pad? etched in stone? The problem is not the laptop, it is the security thereof.
To: doc30
Whatever happened to overhead projectors.
If their presenations are like the presentations at our office, the dopes spend more time on cartoons and diagrams than on content.
Powerpoint is wonderful tool, but way, way overdone these days. Go back to simple stuff: Human intellegence and pens and paper.
How come we make EVERYTHING complicated these days.
To: vannrox
Agreed 1000%............my son served overseas and his computer was on his desk.....pretty hard to hide.....LOL....and there was NO WAY this computer was connected to the outside world. MILITARY USE ONLY.
To: vannrox
Those are two good rules, all right, but they aren't enough in an age when someone can stick two gigs of data on a DAT tape that's barely larger than a box of matches.
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posted on
08/07/2002 9:12:07 AM PDT
by
Campion
To: Campion
That's old tech. A new minature hard drive measuring not more than 1.5"x1"x0.5" can be pluged into a USB slot and download nearly 1 gig of data within a few minutes. Even a sloppy pat down search could easily miss that. If disguised as a functioning lighter or car alarm key chain remote control, it would hardly be given a second thought if found.
Only solution is SCIF security, where nothing but people goes in or out, period.
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posted on
08/07/2002 9:46:26 AM PDT
by
anymouse
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