Posted on 08/25/2010 8:55:41 PM PDT by VRWCTexan
A foreign spy agency pulled off the most serious breach of Pentagon computer networks ever by inserting a flash drive into a U.S. military laptop, a top defense official said Wednesday.
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“Do you want to play a game?”
It is an extremely serious breach of security to acknowledge a breach of security.
Every security officer knows this. There is absolutely no point in doing so.
my rather depressing view on this is that if there is ever a hot conflict developing with china, they are going to demonstrate the ability to turn out the lights in the US (and who knows what stuff within our own govt cybernetworks), as well as do who knows what to our financial markets, etc.
reflects the Pentagon’s desire to raise congressional and public concern....””
And to possibly justify changes to the civilian nets.
on vacation .... and couldn’t be reach for comment.
Under normal circumstances, if a "breach of security" like this one was discovered, it would never be acknowledged as long as it could be turned around and used to supply disinformation.
Exactly.
While the enemy would know that they’d got inside your system, they’d never know that they were “cleanly” in or whether you’d let them in.
Ah the base that lost the nukes. Now that is comforting.
Or, more importantly, WHEN you discovered the “breach”. If the enemy doesn’t know when you discovered a breach, they have no way of knowing when the disinformation began. This renders EVERYTHING they may have stolen useless.
Another bullseye, LH.
To acknowledge a breach to the public is to let the enemy know they actually got in. If you don’t acknowledge, then they have to wonder, even if they’re fair sure they did.
And, sadly, iirc, the congress made it illegal for the military to release misinformation/disinformation to the public. That would mean, technically, that if they admitted to a breach to the public, then they’d have to be, by law, telling the truth.
Is it just me, or does our current government have its head up its ass?
The USB drives were also banned. Most older systems still have that locked. With the newer computers strictly using USB connections for external devices, the newer systems allow them again.
“Is it just me, or does our current government have its head up its ass?”
They are quite competent. It’s just that they are not working for our common good anymore.
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