said by DufiefData:If the docs had been properly declassified this would probably be different.
Agreed. Properly secured or properly declassified.
said by DufiefData:I guess the AF just wasn't planning for the day when open websites would be posting classified info all over the place.
Is anybody wondering what the AF was doing with gigabytes of classified State Dept data?
All the bits and pieces I read keep leading me to the same few conclusions. First is that this wasn't ever an AF problem, it was a DHS problem. DHS's fault really, end to end.
Post Sept 11, there was a hot and heavy push to make inter-agency data become available; intra-agency. DHS was made benevolent dictator over several 3-letter bureaus; and forced them to play nice together.
Must have been a heck of a time.
Problem is that once secure data was diversified, the train went off the rails. I bet there were a hundred agency people who were having conniptions over the abandonment of established practices. I also bet no one was listening to them.
I'll thirdly bet that the first major leak we heard of isn't the first one that happened.
I believe much, if most of the leaked data shouldn't have been classified.
That aside, data that is classified needs to be housed in a properly tiered security structure. From what I see, DHS blew it in every possible way.
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