Posted on 11/29/2010 8:24:00 AM PST by Rutles4Ever
It was childishly easy, according to the published chatlog of a conversation Manning had with a fellow-hacker. "I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like 'Lady Gaga' … erase the music … then write a compressed split file. No one suspected a thing ... [I] listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga's Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history." He said that he "had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months".
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
I’m not sure how many menial tasks require bulk access to the entire data set. Some certainly, but not that many. But I agree that the deterrent should be applied ASAP.
In some way, these homos are like Jihadists in that they see their life as expendable for a cause. They know that chances are they will get some horrible disease from their disgusting lifestyle and just want to make a big splash when they get the chance. If someone put me in charge, I’d kick them out of every corner of the military and government.
Here’s another thread on this (same article, I think, doesn’t matter):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2634167/posts
GREAT comments on the thread.
Seems as though he must have had “help” - a fag buddy?
The entire thing is so sick that it’s beyond words.
This kid is an unstable guy with a grudge, no Einstein. I'm not for a minute buying it, either. How was Comsec, Opsec and all other means of security bypassed? Why were the leaks not stopped? They knew these cables were about to be leaked. Did the administration really want to stop the leaks? Did they at least make a half hearted effort to stop the leaks?
Too many questions, too many b.s. answers.
Those in charge need to explain, fast. They are in charge of national security. They are not protecting our borders, have they quit protecting our national security, too?
Along with the out of control spending, this issue should be right up there!!!! What side is the administration on regarding this issue? They have been against America on almost every other one.
Very apt analogy. And considering the fact that in pederasty is common in many Muslim "cultures", even more apt.
That does it, send in the TSA.
It's impossible if more than one person knows the secret.
After that, it's only a matter of how difficult it is to keep things secret for long enough. For example, have you seen Obama's school records? Birth certificate? When they care, they can keep secrets.
Keeping secrets is a bit harder when 250,000 pages fit on one cd. It's really getting close to impossible when you let every wacko and their significant other have access.
The trouble is the same as it always was -- people and politics. This wacko should never have been among the trusted. And no low-level PFC should have been allowed anywhere near that much data. And it sounds like way too many low-level types had access to this high-level info - which is a political/admin problem.
It's almost like they wanted this stuff to get out. The other option is that keeping this stuff secret wasn't really high on somebody's priority list. And given Billy Clinton's handling of our nuclear secrets, it's would not be out of character for another Clinton and the State Department leftists to slam the USA this way.
Special privilege is afforded gays and muslims now.
It is a PC world.
Ok, you'll have to explain that one to me.
Maybe in 1944, you needed a telecomm geek to transcribe the coded messages, or de-code them to another bit of paper that get's passed up the line. But that's not the situation today. There's no excuse for the telecomm guy to see the plain text, it could be encoded right through to the need-to-know guys.
Why in the world would an Army PFC need to be able to read a State Department cable sent from an Embassy straight to the State Department? And if it wasn't sent straight through, why not?
I’m no expert, but the State Dept stuff was not classified nearly as high as the military memos. This was apparently easier...
Absolutely. All the anti-virus tools use such hooks to tell when a program is trying to write to a disk, or connect to the internet. Those hooks, and probably other methods, could have been used to turn off write capability to flash or CD.
He admitted he did this because he didn’t like DADT so his being a traitorous queer was indeed part of the problem.
Can’t be ignored. That’s just one example among many why homosexuals should not be in the military.
Doesn’t mean there couldn’t be traitors who are not sex perverts. But it is part of the reality of the situation.
Hopefully, the GOP will hold hearings in the House. If not, they should all be fired in 2012.
Their are a lot of people with an axe to grind with Uncle Sam. To give these people, even a low level bureaucrat, access to such massive amounts of secret information, with virtually no oversight, shows a total breakdown of our governments information security. That this dweebs beef is DADT is almost beside the point, it could have been any perceived injustice.
This Nancy boy might be an embarrassment but the lack of security demonstrated by our intelligence agencies far overshadows his gayness.
BTTT!
Hope that clarifies it a little.
It had been classified as a (deviant) "paraphilia" related to necrophilia, pedophilia, and fetishism.
Which it still is, the political defeat of the unprepared, however honest, defenders of unsullied biosciences notwithstanding.
Keep in mind that there is a numerous, vigorous, and wealthy cabal of gays in the highest levels of the GOP, who have been working furiously to defeat "family values" as a rallying theme in the GOP.
Log Cabin or GOProud Republicans or Republican Unity Coalition, whatever they call themselves, they are enemies of all social conservatives and call themselves "economic conservatives". Which means, in plain English, "liberals who know how to count".
“The kid was clearly gay. And, he lived the kind of lifestyle prior to enlisting that was clearly homosexual. How did he pass a background check which would have presumably included field interviews because he clearly had top-secret clearance? Did not a single red-flag go up about this kid’s sexuality during the security screening process?”
Because of political correctness supervisors were probably afraid of asking this guy anything, for fear he would say his feelings were hurt if they were to pry into his tastes in anything from music to dinner choices. Special kid glove in the military, so as not to hurt this “protected class” and not hurt their feelings.
He seemed to think it cute and just to set off international chaos because he was not totally comfortable with who he was in the military. It’s been pointed out that the missives published seem cherry picked on behalf of the far Left. Now the kid feels like a man.
Two homosexually-oriented psychologists kept campaigning for this until they
“won.” Science was thrown in the scrap heap.
After that 1973 APA vote no mental health professional was allowed to treat anyone for unwanted same sex attraction. Helping people became a thing of the past. These potential patients were then brain washed to believe that gay was the only way. This Wikigate [coined by Michael Savage] fiasco is one big tragic outcome of the gay agenda. The guy wanted to feel like a man. First he joined the military. That must not have worked. Now this.
“Something about this is very fishy....we need to know who was in charge of security and what they were thinking. This happened on Hillary’s watch, and I’m sure it’s up to her to get to the bottom of this.”
This made me recall that early when Ms. Clinton took over State, there was some noise about a complete computer system overhaul at the State department.
I will try to find that noise again.
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