Can you hang on a second? I have to finish uploading the technical references and schematics of the Seawolf class attack submarine to LimeWire.

"traced the information back to a Maryland company where an employee apparently downloaded a file-sharing program."

SMACK!!

There are some tax software packages that load your info into a certain folder by default. Some file sharing programs use that same folder.

I've heard of personal photos, home movies, complete tax returns, you name it. In the same vein, I've seen excel files out on the web with complete payroll data for various companies that didn't know what they were doing, not so much anymore.

And yet there will be no firings as a result of this abuse of government property. It's as if incompetence is encouraged by the U.S. Government.

/Plus, aren't the countermeasures of everything up to and including Air Force One available anyway?

Excen: And yet there will be no firings as a result of this abuse of government property. It's as if incompetence is encouraged by the U.S. Government.

/Plus, aren't the countermeasures of everything up to and including Air Force One available anyway?



Uh, when it comes to computer incompetence the government isn't alone. Ask any IT person the retarded shiat they have to deal with on a daily basis.

If you ever wanted to be seriously sick to your stomach, check out the cost for this next generation Marine 1 and do some back of the envelope calculations as to how much the thing will have cost per actual minute of flying time over the course of its lifetime even before ridiculously high costs of crew, consumables, and maintenance are considered.

Well that was light on detail. Why was Tiversa looking at 'a computer network' in Iran? Whose network? And why were they looking for classified data on them?

No problem. Barry's got it covered.

Freak: Excen: And yet there will be no firings as a result of this abuse of government property. It's as if incompetence is encouraged by the U.S. Government.

/Plus, aren't the countermeasures of everything up to and including Air Force One available anyway?



Uh, when it comes to computer incompetence the government isn't alone. Ask any IT person the retarded shiat they have to deal with on a daily basis.


I'm an admin on a gov't network so I'm getting a kick....

This is one of the most frustrating parts of my job. What I don't understand is why that user was allowed to install it at all. All of that is on lock down on my network.

Freak, Excen:

Uh, when it comes to computer incompetence the government isn't alone. Ask any IT person the retarded shiat they have to deal with on a daily basis.

QFT

(And for what it's worth, I'm the Information System Security Officer for a defense contractor, so I am getting a real kick out of these posts..)

Excen: And yet there will be no firings as a result of this abuse of government property. It's as if incompetence is encouraged by the U.S. Government.

Depends on the company. I wouldn't be surprised if the company responsible loses its current/pending/future contracts and access to confidential/secret+ information. Which pretty much means that company is done for and everyone is fired.

Ingeniero:Depends on the company. I wouldn't be surprised if the company responsible loses its current/pending/future contracts and access to confidential/secret+ information. Which pretty much means that company is done for and everyone is fired.

Show me one example in recent memory where this has happened to a company dealing with the US government.

YankeeAirPirate:
This is one of the most frustrating parts of my job. What I don't understand is why that user was allowed to install it at all. All of that is on lock down on my network.

I hated file sharing networks. The biggest PITA is that they would store all of their data in the "/Documents and Settings" folder. So not only would we get the hit on the network to download the stuff. We would have GB of data going up and down the pipes when someone would log on and log off the domain!

And I wasn't even allowed to plug Napster and Kazaa at my old place. A Director thought she "needed" it to do her job.

From the Cnet article: "Boback believes that the files probably were transferred through a peer-to-peer file-sharing network such as LimeWire or BearShare, then compromised."

I figured this was the case, because I didn't see how you could do this accidentally via BitTorrent. "I made a torrent of my 'Eyes Only' folder and seeded it on The Pirate Bay? Whoops! My bad!"

It's easier to just pull their clearance so they can no longer do that job.

Bomb Head Mohammed: Ingeniero:Depends on the company. I wouldn't be surprised if the company responsible loses its current/pending/future contracts and access to confidential/secret+ information. Which pretty much means that company is done for and everyone is fired.

Show me one example in recent memory where this has happened to a company dealing with the US government.

I would, but that information is classified.

Lucky for the President that this story broke!!!

Because he was requesting a new fleet of Marine One helicopters and getting significant grief from Congress about the expenditure.

Then THIS happens!

Wow, talk about coincidences!

/What are the odds??

So this american dude was searching for 'top secret' on kazaa/limewire/whatever and found blueprints for a LOLcopter in Iran?

what a non-story

Excen: And yet there will be no firings as a result of this abuse of government property. It's as if incompetence is encouraged by the U.S. Government.

/Plus, aren't the countermeasures of everything up to and including Air Force One available anyway?

ECM and ECCM are super-duper classified

PapermonkeyExpress: Lucky for the President that this story broke!!!

Because he was requesting a new fleet of Marine One helicopters and getting significant grief from Congress about the expenditure.

Then THIS happens!

Wow, talk about coincidences!

/What are the odds??

GAAAA....must.....not.....feed.....troll.......

You farking nitwit! BUSH ordered these farking new helicopters and Obama doesn't really think it is necessary. ASSWIPE!

I am searching on limewire for Iranian flying carpets plans.

I just downloaded an awesome curry recipe. Those little hut dwellers are good for something after all.

Can't wait for the email that spins this in how careless Obama is with the countries secrets, and how he is just catering this type of intel to the enemies of the United States because he is a secret mooslim turrist, and and and IMPEACH HIM FOR IT!

probably counter-intelligence

And what EXACTLY does anyone do with this information?

Not a damn thing. There's nothing they can do with it even if they understood it. Move along.

Bomb Head Mohammed: If you ever wanted to be seriously sick to your stomach, check out the cost for this next generation Marine 1 and do some back of the envelope calculations as to how much the thing will have cost per actual minute of flying time over the course of its lifetime even before ridiculously high costs of crew, consumables, and maintenance are considered.

And while you're doing that, remember that our previous President, the honorable and noble George W Bush is the one who ordered them and that the doublesecretmooslumkenyan current President is trying to cancel the order.

jmr61: And what EXACTLY does anyone do with this information?

Not a damn thing. There's nothing they can do with it even if they understood it. Move along.

If it really includes detailed blueprints, it would go a long way towards allowing someone to shoot one down.

And given that we've made antiaircraft weapons so small and easy to use, it is entirely possible that a terrorist could easily take the shot from the rooftop of a building in DC.

PapermonkeyExpress: Because he was requesting a new fleet of Marine One helicopters and getting significant grief from Congress about the expenditure.

Came from the old president. I don't believe he has requested it, but can cancel it. Never really sure with how something like this would be paid from. Defense budget? Secret Service? White House expenditures?

Though quite timely. Why, a conspiracy minded fella could say "Hmmm, $14B in contracts? Wonder if that's enough to find an employee who has a file sharing program running, and help things out."

That's OK. We just got the secret plans for the latest stealth flying carpet...

Welcome to Obama's version of a safe America, folks.

Through a friend, I met a marine who is on the presidential detail when these things fly. He was around 22, and had already been to nearly as many countries. Pretty cool stuff.

Old & busted bogeyman: Al Qaeda
New hotness bogeyman: Iran

Are you still locked into the belief that 9/11 was not an inside job?

Wake up and smell it, folks.

Iesh. I'm glad I don't work for that company. I only work for a fully owned subsidiary of that company. Phewf.

Theological Farker:
GAAAA....must.....not.....feed.....troll.......

You farking nitwit! BUSH ordered these farking new helicopters and Obama doesn't really think it is necessary. ASSWIPE!

Give Obama some time to realize what PoS the current helicopters are.

At the very least, we need to replace the current helicopters. They are actually dangerous.

When running a program, you practically do 90% of the work in the first 20% of the schedule. Changes after the first 20% are damned expensive.

Disclosure: I am getting a kick out of these replies.

Further disclosure. The biggest opponent of this program happens to be the representative from the where Sikorsky is based. Sikorsky who isn't complaining about the cost of the program. They just want a cut.

(What, you actually think this would be cancelled? No, it will get stopped, divided among several contractors, and several years later it will finally continue, only at 2x the cost.)

Tr0mBoNe: Iesh. I'm glad I don't work for that company. I only work for a fully owned subsidiary of that company. Phewf.

I guessed that when you were in the thread about the guards stomping the people taking pictures of your work location. ;)

You can check out the VH-71 hanger from a public highway. Of course, you can do the same with the Pentagon.

What are the odds?

So the Iranians know just about everything about his new helicopter.

And?

YankeeAirPirate: Freak: Excen: And yet there will be no firings as a result of this abuse of government property. It's as if incompetence is encouraged by the U.S. Government.

/Plus, aren't the countermeasures of everything up to and including Air Force One available anyway?



Uh, when it comes to computer incompetence the government isn't alone. Ask any IT person the retarded shiat they have to deal with on a daily basis.


I'm an admin on a gov't network so I'm getting a kick....

This is one of the most frustrating parts of my job. What I don't understand is why that user was allowed to install it at all. All of that is on lock down on my network.

locked down on ours too, along with usb drives. I think soon we are going to thin clients.

My cousin's the pilot of Marine One.

/ His identity is published information, so I'm not spilling anything.
// You can see him peering out of the cockpit on the "Bush hits his head on the chopper door" video.

Theological Farker: PapermonkeyExpress: Lucky for the President that this story broke!!!

Because he was requesting a new fleet of Marine One helicopters and getting significant grief from Congress about the expenditure.

Then THIS happens!

Wow, talk about coincidences!

/What are the odds??

GAAAA....must.....not.....feed.....troll.......

You farking nitwit! BUSH ordered these farking new helicopters and Obama doesn't really think it is necessary. ASSWIPE!

I have no problem with the heliocopters, even tho I hope he removed from office soon, I perfer him and future presidents to have the best protection possible.

Marine One, and Air Force One are call signs, not the aircraft. Whatever air craft they're on get the call sign.

Akbar the Trappiste Monk: Welcome to Obama's version of a safe America, folks.

That's something a terrorist would say about the sitting President during wartime.

NewportBarGuy: Can you hang on a second? I have to finish uploading the technical references and schematics of the Seawolf class attack submarine to LimeWire.

Just as long as they never get their hands on the high-tech, transformative tools issued to 11 Bravos ...

Er. Wait. What?

PapermonkeyExpress: Wow, talk about coincidences!

/What are the odds??

Akbar the Trappiste Monk: Welcome to Obama's version of a safe America, folks.


FAIL.

/doesn't even deserve a picture

I'm betting the subby is assuming the information was classified. Fear-mongering FTW! Here's hoping it wasn't, especially if it was on an unclassified system with access to the internet... can you say 'facility security clearance revoked'? Either way, it's unfortunate - but I'm getting a kick out of all these 'Obama did it' replies.

Troll need know specs.. canadian seaking fall apart.. steal marine one.. 9/11 conspiracy, bin laden lives in toronto, Obama is a cylon

You can all suck our state secrets

Excen: And yet there will be no firings as a result of this abuse of government property. It's as if incompetence is encouraged by the U.S. Government.

/Plus, aren't the countermeasures of everything up to and including Air Force One available anyway?

Have you seen the new budget proposal? It's beginning to look like we're just getting started with the incompetence.

Yeah, thank goodness no blueprints made it to farking piece of dog shiat Iran or anything.

Dumbass.

They just had a show on Discovery with more info on that helicopter.

Akbar the Trappiste Monk: Welcome to Obama's version of a safe America, folks.

Obvious troll is obvious.