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File swapping lays bare U.S. secrets

From the Boston Globe via The International Herald Tribune:

In part:

"Leak of sensitive documents traced to music downloading

BOSTON Sensitive military secrets may be available through the same file-sharing software used by millions to swap illegal music and movie files. Rick Wallace, a computer user in Germany whose wife serves with the U.S. Army there, said he had used the popular file-swapping program LimeWire to download military duty rosters, discussions of tactics and other secret files. He said the problem probably had been caused by military personnel using LimeWire to download music files, unaware that they were also exposing secret information stored on their own computers. A terrorist or enemy combatant with Internet access could obtain valuable information about U.S. military operations merely by downloading it, he said...."

If this wasn't true it would be funny :boggle:

I guess "Military intelligence," is an oxy-moron :D

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:)

That would explain all that weird stuff I got when all I wanted was Dylans "Masters of War".

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Yeah, I was looking for Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits and found out I'm on a hit list in Argentina.
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TonyHiggins wrote:Yeah, I was looking for Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits and found out I'm on a hit list in Argentina.
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"Do not cry for me, Argentina"? :D

But it was kind of neat to find that there's a whole group of wannabe barbarian Arnie fanboys who worship me as a god! :P
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Nanohedron wrote:I await martial law. :o
If it didn't sound flaky, I'd say the government probably concocted the whole thing as an excuse to get an even tighter grip.
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MarkB wrote:File swapping lays bare U.S. secrets

From the Boston Globe via The International Herald Tribune:

In part:

"Leak of sensitive documents traced to music downloading

BOSTON Sensitive military secrets may be available through the same file-sharing software used by millions to swap illegal music and movie files. Rick Wallace, a computer user in Germany whose wife serves with the U.S. Army there, said he had used the popular file-swapping program LimeWire to download military duty rosters, discussions of tactics and other secret files. He said the problem probably had been caused by military personnel using LimeWire to download music files, unaware that they were also exposing secret information stored on their own computers. A terrorist or enemy combatant with Internet access could obtain valuable information about U.S. military operations merely by downloading it, he said...."

If this wasn't true it would be funny :boggle:

I guess "Military intelligence," is an oxy-moron :D

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TonyHiggins wrote: ...and found out I'm on a hit list in Argentina.
Because you're a Frank Sinatra fan?
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Walden stated
If it didn't sound flaky, I'd say the government probably concocted the whole thing as an excuse to get an even tighter grip.
I wonder if the music industry is working with the military, or is given the excuse to shut file sharing.

I still hold to my last statement, I don't think any government or military organization is that brilliant or intelligent to carry something like this off.

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What good is Martian law gonna do? I didn't think we were supposed to go there until...mmmmmm...Bush's forth term?
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Walden wrote:If it didn't sound flaky, I'd say the government probably concocted the whole thing as an excuse to get an even tighter grip.
Uhm, are those black helicopters keeping you up nights, Walden? :lol:
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OutOfBreath wrote:
Walden wrote:If it didn't sound flaky, I'd say the government probably concocted the whole thing as an excuse to get an even tighter grip.
Uhm, are those black helicopters keeping you up nights, Walden? :lol:
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OutOfBreath wrote:
Walden wrote:If it didn't sound flaky, I'd say the government probably concocted the whole thing as an excuse to get an even tighter grip.
Uhm, are those black helicopters keeping you up nights, Walden? :lol:
That's not funny! I've seen...well almost seen those. They were right above my car once while I drove through the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina. When I looked out the window to see them they'd move to the other side. Tricky little devils.
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Hey, I know one of the pilots of the black helicopters, and he has assured me that they don't exist.

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I once lived near the town of Cyril, and it was pronounced like surreal. Stank awful. There was an oil refinery there.
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