Comments on: Pentagon admits to losing 24,000 files in major network breach

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:00:00 +0000

Whose to say that they might not already be in place. Why spend trillions on defense when you could just manufacture a circuit board for the enemies fighters and missiles with one line of code t that, when activated by transponder or other means, proceeds to disable/delete/sabotage every computer subsystem. It could be so innocuous that you could include it in all sorts of components that might end up in your enemies arsenal even if it also went into things unrelated.

By: Marisol Saona

Marisol Saona — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:32:00 +0000

Me and my collegues at the Laptop Security Blog do agree about what you said about the inherent problems of Microsoft in these cases. On our blog we discuss data breaches, like this one the Pentagon has admitted to…
http://clicksafe.kensington.com/blog/?Tag=data+breaches
We’ve made a free white paper download about reputation management in the face of data loss, which so many companies are going to need to read, what with the rash of data breaches in recent times!

By: john charles webb jr.

john charles webb jr. — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:30:00 +0000

Has anyone guessed that the primary problem is the problems inherent in Microsoft Windows …
China has developed its own operating system (Kylin) and it is the antithesis of our ‘Windows to the world’.

By: Jhowa09

Jhowa09 — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Ctrl-Alt-Del

By: Monsooneddy

Monsooneddy — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:40:00 +0000

On the plus side: You can imagine how we (the U.S government) must be cyberphucking other countries.

By: Tatsuyashibumi

Tatsuyashibumi — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:13:00 +0000

I vote for C) both.

By: Tatsuyashibumi

Tatsuyashibumi — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:13:00 +0000

I vote for C) both.

By: Bob Blarneystone

Bob Blarneystone — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:09:00 +0000

Karen, well, what about those who stole the files? I’ll bet that we could make a reasonable guess as to who that might be. I don’t think that they wish us well, and I think that they have a limitless budget and they want total control over the internet.

Also, considering that most computer components are manufactured overseas now, there might be another way to achieve superiority by hiding mechanisms in the hardware or firmware to disable or take control of critical systems.

By: Bob Blarneystone

Bob Blarneystone — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:09:00 +0000

By: KarenJ

KarenJ — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:52:00 +0000

Read “The Mitrokhin Archive…” and see technology thefts have been happening for a very long time. The difference is storage is now digital versus plain paper. The FA-18 technology thefts, as an example, gave the Soviets leaps in technology they otherwise would not have made for years.

Articles such as this highlight the fact that someone at the Pentagon wants; a) a bigger budget, b) more control over the Internet, or c) both.

Too many people with access leaves too many possibilities for inside breaches of security which lead to outside access to sensitive files.

By: KarenJ

KarenJ — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:52:00 +0000

Articles such as this highlight the fact that someone at the Pentagon wants; a) a bigger budget, b) more control over the Internet, or c) both.

Too many people with access leaves too many possibilities for inside breaches of security which lead to outside access to sensitive files.