This kind of so called accidental breach seems to happen so frequently one could get the impression it is willful.
Perhaps the perpetrators of these mistake could be sent oversee something in Afghanistan?
Such as cleaning Taliban toilets.
A second leak of personal data was reportedly committed by the Ministry of Defence, raising further questions about the ministry's commitment to the safety of people in Afghanistan, some of whom are its own former employees. The BBC reported overnight that the details of a further 55 Afghans – claimed to be candidates for …
This kind of so called accidental breach seems to happen so frequently one could get the impression it is willful.
No, it is people just doing things without thinking. You could send them on a training course once a month and it would still happen.
They will (hopefully) bollock whoever did it. This person will be careful for a while but might do it again next year.
Presumably the suspended person is the muppet who included the addresses in the cc field.
It should be people at the very to of the MoD who ultimately get suspended. The system is at fault, not an admin clerk. Being able to paste the addresses into the cc field means they were somehow available on a standard email distribution list or most likely an Excel fu**ing spreadsheet. They should be on a secure list server where nobody can see the addresses and where each recipient receives an individual copy of the email, preferrably with the address in bcc, and the sending of which is logged and stamped with the ID of the user who authorised the sending. Nobody, whether within the MoD or outside it should see these addresses on screen.
Or even better, use a secure portal to communicate.
FFS Mailchimp would be a thousand times more secure than what the MoD is doing, apparently routinely.
These twats have put actual lives of actual people, along with their families in grave danger of death or worse. No fine is big enough - a spell in prison should send the right message.
BBC story clarifies that Wallace was not aware of leak of 55 names when he announced disciplining of an official for the leak of 250+ names. However, it is not clear in what order those breaches occurred. It could still be the same chump responsible for both. Investigation of 250+ leak may have led to second discovery.
ARAP covers a problem that did not exist two months ago so was probably thrown together using whatever and whoever was available.
Am still not impressed by any mail system that accepts a very large number of recipients for a single message, regardless of address mode.
I am always a bit surprised that my mail client asks me if I use the word "attatched" in an email without and attatchment but does not at least put a an "are you sure" screen if I am sending to >10 people in the To: or CC: sections who will see each others emails.
Would this be a hard feature?
The problem is they probably do have lots of safeguards.
Such that it takes 17 levels of sign-off on 8 different security systems by 3 admirals, a field-marshall and 2 popes, to send an email to another dept, and this can only be done from a single Tempest shielded secure terminal in a locked room in a bunker under Rockall.
So as a result the entire system relies on people emailing spreadsheets to each other from private hotmail accounts.
The result of the enquiry will be to add another layer of locks to the door to the bunker ...
>Email works fine as it is.
Apparently not.
No one is advocating safeguards against everything, just safeguards against things that happen all too often with frequently dire consequences.
Blaming users for common mistakes is stupid - systems should be designed for human beings with all their flaws. Any frequent user error is in reality a design error.
The worst of the whole thing is that the whole invasion turned out to be pointless because the weak liver bellied woosies in charge hadnt the balls or the gumption to let the military actually go in and win. Instead they waffled and wouldnt let soldiers shoot Taliban and their supporters whining that the civilians who were supporting and helping them might get hurt. Nor would they properly confront Pakistan and others who were actively supporting the Taliban.
Of course the yanks pretty much are to blame for the whole lot, after all without them the Taliban wouldnt exist at all
But now we will "win".
Afghanistan has no legal exports and needs to import almost all of its food and medicine. We no longer need Pakistan's "cooperation" so can force it go along with embargos on imports.
Then a couple of drone strikes can take out water treatment and sewage works, and any remaining hospitals.
We should be able to engineer a famine that kills easily 20% of the 30million population.
Call it 6 Million dead with no casualties on our side - and we don't even have to pay the gas bill.
Why use famine when "a cold" will do - China tried with MERS, which failed, then the new one, but it doesn't seam to affect anyone it that region. Is it goats milk that prevents infection or maybe using your hand in place of tp creates super immunity,,, idk
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/01/philp-hammond-to-spend-extra-19bn-fighting-cyber-attacks
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Yup....2016....Yup....£1,900,000,000 EXTRA tax payer money to "protect" the UK and its employees. Billions......."security"....."think of the children"...........
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Maybe the Tories need to spend TRILLIONS before the training reaches this d**k head in the MOD??
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So....the REAL bad actors are in Main Building (a big building on Whitehall).........you know, near Number 10, Downing Street!!!!!
At least they apologised. You know these days, if they didn't, nothing really would happen.
Society became like a Pavlov dog. If the outrage is not manufactured by the media, then nobody cares about those things.
It's great that there are souls who put effort into exposing these things, but this is becoming niche, which is quite worrying.
Most already turned the page on Afghanistan.
The West dropped the ball when they allowed Bin Laden and his minions to escape after 9/11.
Seems that at the time assassinations were permitted but not of "important individuals" so as not to send out the wrong message.
This is also the same reason why it took so long to locate him in p******n because randomly stopping suspects and checking to see if they had
digital media on them was frowned upon.
I sometimes wonder given the current state of the Middle East, whether a low yield nuclear strike with an ERW on the "suspected" locations in sparsely habitated mountains might have done less overall damage in the long term and sent out a clear message, but such thinking is tantamount to high treason these days.
Yet at a certain point during the early 1950s the SU actually looked into using such weapons but also discounted it at the time for IMHO ridiculous reasons
like "it might lead to another conflict".
Signed: Captain A Jarhead.
such thinking is tantamount to high treason these days. Not high treason, it's just insane. Let's create a precedent for the casual use of nuclear weapons. Maybe let Putin decide it would be a fun thing to do to Ukraine, or Xi to Taiwan. Let's murder 10s of thousands of innocents to achieve our aim. And if it turns out that 'they' were in a city? Still OK? Do you think we can play 'the ends justifies the means' or should we go with 'just following orders'?
>I sometimes wonder given the current state of the Middle East, whether a low yield nuclear strike [would have] sent out a clear message
The clear message would be that it is OK for any country to use nuclear weapons in any local difficulty.
And to reinforce that point with the nuclear armed countries in the region, the wind typically blows from the North or North West over Afghanistan, so the radioactive debris cloud activated by your neutron bomb would be carried across the Pakistan and India.
I opposed British involvement in the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan in advance. I told you so.
Our best and brightest don't line up to join the MoD. Nice people mostly, they take the folk too pleasant and honest to work in a jobcentre. If you think, "but national security!", nah.
I hate the word retard but I have funny stories. A bunch of people I knew tried to break into a nuclear weapons base but were caught at the fence. The MoD plod drove them inside the base to put them in cells, but then accidentally locked themselves in the cells leaving the protesters outside and free to roam the base. I've never actually seen Keystone Cops but it seems an accurate depiction.
Oh, and "military intelligence", you'd think the creme de la creme, but wishful thinking. It's a safe bet none of them have won a TV quiz show, or even a family game of Triv.