defense contractor employee with a file share program on work PC & blueprint for Marine One?

[havocmom]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29447088/

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Employees of Tiversa, a Cranberry Township, Pa.-based security company that specializes in peer-to-peer technology, reportedly found engineering and communications information about Marine One at an IP address in Tehran, Iran.

Bob Boback, CEO of Tiversa, told WPXI-TV: "We found a file containing entire blueprints and avionics package for Marine One, which is the president's helicopter."
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The company was able to trace the file back to its original source.

"What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, Md., had a file-sharing program on one of their systems that also contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One," Boback said.

:wtf:

Allowing any ol PC access to contractor data because employee wants to share a tune? What the hell are they thinking?

[napoleon_in_rags]

1. Iran is a masturbation nexus.

Basically if Russia, China or some serious actor wants to flaunt possession of information that doesn't matter that much (such as the blueprint to Marine One) in a threatening way, you just share it at an IP in Iran. There's not a lot of meaning in its, its just the way certain powers stroke themselves. That's my theory, anyway. :)

[havocmom]

3. but what kind of bozo employees for defense contractor would allow file sharing from work PC?

I am an admitted Luddite, but I wouldn't put a file share program on my work computer and I am just a book pusher.

[napoleon_in_rags]

5. I don't know, but I can almost promise you its not as simple as it appears.

For instance, if there is a file sharing deal that's controlled by intelligence contractors, and the Russians got wind, Its totally likely they would use hackers to share the blueprints (acquired through other sources) on the network to spook US contractors. Its not that useful, just a way of stroking off. A psyop. And Iran is the perfect pawn to do it with.

The intelligence world is a weird scene. I don't personally know, but history is enough to show...

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. File sharing programs

share files if you allow them to be shared. There are also many other methods to access information on another person's computer...

This looks more like an intentional media hype than a real threat. I wonder why the smoke from the media...?

[RandomThoughts]

4. This sounds like PR manipulation.

Sequence of events seen on news on the topic.


Cost of new helicopter finds its way into news.

Gop criticizes President Obama new marine one helicopter.

President Obama comments his helicopter seems fine, meaning not needing a new military industrial piece of hardware.

Gates makes top staff sign confidentiality on spending.

Now the old helicopter is suddenly not secure, and leaked because of music sharing? Get a life, this is just a bit much.

I call BS on this one.

One last thing, the article is using the post time of 5:55 (ok that part is a stretch, may be a coincidence.)

[napoleon_in_rags]

6. Ooh, provacative....

Now suppose some certain defence contractors, wanting to build the new Marine One, were to leak that information...The old Marine One rendered useless because it was shared. Yes, I am beginning to see the texture of this operation. Fascinating. :(

[dkf]

7. I was just reading about health records that were made vulnerable

due to file sharing programs also.

Its funny that we are hearing about this only now. You'd think file sharing was less not more significant nowadays.