New Zealand broadcaster foolish U.S. Army.

From something every journalist dreams: The New Zealand News Channel One News has a 60-page file containing the names and contact information to U.S. troops, details on equipment and other secret information. Ownership was the explosive file in a secondhand shop.

 

Wellington - What do you do when you are in a secondhand store an MP3 player buys and soon understands that highly sensitive military secrets with them around? The 29-year-old Chris Ogle from the New Zealand Whangerei gave the thing a TV Channel that he knows and he trusts - One News is the news channel of state television, Television New Zealand.

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A U.S. army soldier at the computer: Better no data stored on mobile media. They could be in secondhand stores appear

Ogle had bought the little machine, however, in a shop in Oklahoma. Setback nine U.S. dollars (about 7 euro) cost of the offer, which is soon to be rather strange job out: At no time, says Ogle, had the device as an MP3 player functions. But he was followed by a roughly 60-page file, which is truly in him: "The longer I've viewed the file, the more clear to me was that I probably would not have been allowed to see."

Since he is probably correct, as searches of the New Zealand television show: The document contains einzustufende be as secret information about the supply of military equipment to different bases, but especially lists of names of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan served. Including contact information, such as mobile phone numbers of soldiers abroad and social security numbers of course. In some cases, searchers had to tell, they could report on at the time of Dateiabspeicherung current pregnancies.

No response

Although at that time in the fetal stage of development recorded army born offspring now, because the data on the MP3 player came from the year 2005. Contact information for the soldiers but were to a large extent still valid, as the Channel One News by some random phone calls quickly could clarify.

The U.S. Army is aware of the potential risks by portable disk perfectly clear: In the last year
forbade the U.S. Department of Defense, the use of USB flash drives, memory cards and MP3 players to service computers. Whether as a second-hand goods in the sale came MP3 player so was no longer needed, by whom and under what circumstances he was sold, is unclear.

In an opinion by the U.S. Army or the American Embassy in New Zealand News One waited in vain so far. Chris Ogle has offered to the MP3 player at the request of the U.S. Defense Department to hand over. As I said: it does not work.