Faced with growing fallout over the release of diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks, the State Department has announced it is removing the cables from the US government’s classified computer network until certain “weaknesses” can be fixed.
The cables had previously been accessible through SIPRNet, an ostensibly secure network which is accessable by millions of officials and soldiers. It is presumably through this network that the cables were obtained and leaked to WikiLeaks.
Officials have suggested that Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst, was likely the leaker of these documents, and he would have had accress to them through SIPRNet, along presumably with the other documents that he leaked.
While this severely limits official access to the documents, it may also mean that officials who were using SIPRNet may have to turn to WikiLeaks document dump, incomplete though it still is, as the only convenient source for the files.
'While this severely limits official access to the documents, it may also mean that officials who were using SIPRNet may have to turn to WikiLeaks document dump, incomplete though it still is, as the only convenient source for the files.'
Brilliant – ROFL – Tears streaming……….
What's all the crap about 'cables'?
If these messages were cables they'd be a lot more secure than the current round of email, blackberry messaging, and tweets. When elint cal tell what you ate for supper by interpreting the farts vibrating off your bathroom wall, filling the ether with even the best 'encrypted' messages might not be as secure as we'd like it to be.
Add to that the 'security' of redundant computer systems that will provide an impenetrable 'knowledge base' for future historians. Anything generated or transmitted electronically, even this drivel, will be recorded for posterity on some 'system', somewhere. Those older forms of diplomatic communication were far easier to deal with.
A prime example of such a 'knowledge base' is the barf of information being posted on wikileaks. They require somebody putting a lot of time, no doubt, cutting the 'wad' into digestible pieces and then a second squad of software engineers defining search parameters that might make some kind of sense of each bellyful. Unless the US military is way ahead of the curve in computerised search and organizational functions, which I would doubt very much, such 'cables' and 'intel' would be as useful as The Great Carsoni's old tarboosh.
kinda like a NSA surveilience state and telcom immunity all rolled back onto it's odorous self aka point of orgin,without the pride of course
State Department has announced it is removing the cables from the US government’s classified computer network until certain “weaknesses” can be fixed.
Gosh, does that mean they're going to get rid of all those former pizza franchise owners, parking lot paving magnates and commodity traders who used political donations to score ambassadorships?
State Department has announced it is removing the cables from the US government's classified computer network until certain weaknesses can be fixed.