HELO-1
You heard about it. The details of Obama’s Presidential Helicopter Marine One were leaked, or breached or otherwise ended up in the hands of nutcase Iranian President Ahmadinejad.
You gotta figure the blueprints and avionics particulars are damned important, and I would hope, classified information. A defense contractor in Bethesda, MD (not Lockheed according to the media) really screwed the pooch on this one… in many ways.
1. Some idiot decided it was safe and acceptable to download a peer to peer (P2P) sharing program.
2. Some idiot in the IT administration didn’t think about blocking P2P programs from being downloaded, or installed or executed.
3. Some other idiot allowed the mixing of sensitive information with open source software on the same computer.
Oy, they really should know better. I remember a few years back a friend in the intelligence community said the DoJ should prosecute criminal stupidity in IT. That’s a bit of a stretch, but several idiots should certainly have ‘I Am Stupid’ annotated to their HR records and their bio.
So, now there’s going to be a proposed Congressional investigation. How much worse can this get? Do we really want a bunch of questionably knowledgeable lawyers to figure out how to keep peer to peer (P2P) software off of classified or sensitive systems? I think not. They’ll end up trying to ban everything except for MS Office.
The community knows how to avoid this kind of pure malfeasance. The contractor should, too, but it appears they need a major boost in their employee security training, administrative oversight and their security policies.
My question to y’all: What should the penalty be for ‘The Company’ and ‘The Idiots’?
