The Army’s “Sticky Note” SIPRNet SecurityBy: emptywheel
Saturday May 28, 2011 7:52 am
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In addition to all the other gaping security problems
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/04/05/the-response-to-the-wikileaks-reveals-dod-remains-vulnerable/ with the classified network,
there were apparently widely accessible SIPRNet computers with passwords written out on sticky notes on the computers.A Guardian investigation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/may/27/bradley-manning-wikileaks-iraq-video focusing on soldiers who worked with Manning in Iraq has also discovered there was virtually no computer and intelligence security at Manning’s station in Iraq, Forward Operating Base Hammer.
According to eyewitnesses, the security was so lax that many of the 300 soldiers on the base had access to the computer room where Manning worked, and passwords to access the intelligence computers were stuck on “sticky notes” on the laptop screens.
Rank and file soldiers would watch grisly “kill mission” footage as a kind of entertainment on computers with access to the sensitive network of US diplomatic and military communications known as SIPRNet....
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Hey DOD? You gotta be trying to keep stuff secret if you’re going to claim it’s secret. If the password to get to the secrets is floating around on Post It notes, you really can’t argue that you were actively trying to keep this stuff secret.
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Link:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/05/28/the-armys-sticky-note-siprnet-security/:kick:
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