Another "oops" -- Pentagon's inadvertent file-sharing

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House Panel Scrutinizes File-Sharing

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
The Associated Press
Tuesday, July 24, 2007; 2:41 PM

WASHINGTON -- A diagram of a Pentagon computer network that includes passwords to defense contractors' systems is one of hundreds of classified documents accidentally available online, a House panel was told Tuesday.

This and other sensitive information, including personal financial data, is mistakenly leaked through popular file-sharing programs such as LimeWire, KaZaA and Morpheus that individual, corporate and government users use to share music, movie and other entertainment files, several experts said at a hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

"The American people would be totally outraged if they were aware of what is inadvertently shared ... by government agencies," said retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who is on the advisory board of Tiversa Inc., a data security company. Clark did not name the defense contractors whose computing passwords were compromised.

Waxman and Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., senior Republican on the committee, said they had examined similar concerns four years ago. Both members introduced a bill in 2003 that would have required government agencies to clamp down on file-sharing, but the legislation wasn't approved.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/24/AR2007072401191.html

Is there any longer any doubt that you can't trust Republicans with ANYthing?!?

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1. You know why this happened?

Because the Pentagon has legions of "eckspurts" out in the field, busting balls on defense contractors and their IT infrastructure security.

And nobody is watching the store.

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2. I'm kicking this -- the Pentagon is leaking like a sieve but without a candidate's name involved,

it sinks like a stone.

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