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A former US Navy Seal who wrote a bestseller about his role in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden is to pay nearly $7m (£5m) to the government for violating non-disclosure agreements.
Matt Bissonette failed to get clearance from the Pentagon before the book No Easy Day was published in 2012.
He has agreed to forfeit all profits and royalties, as well as film rights and speaking fees.
In exchange, the government will dismiss other liability claims.
Source: BBC News
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @03:17PM
So what you're saying is that since somebody can't control what somebody else sends to them, it's probably a good idea to maintain a clear separation between work and personal and do all work stuff on authorized systems. It would also be prudent, I would think, but not having a security clearance myself somebody feel free to correct me, if classified information is received on the personal account to follow the policies and procedures to report that.
I don't know. Like I said, I don't have a security clearance. So I'm probably just an idiot spouting off crap on the internet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @03:24PM
Whether uncleared people send you classified material at your office email server or your own email server makes no practical difference. Both systems are unclassified, and in both cases the email was sent to you unencrypted over the public internet.
So nope, that's not what I am saying at all.
> So I'm probably just an idiot spouting off crap on the internet.
I am definitely saying that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @05:14PM
GP here. Ah ok. My next question is then, are there procedures in place for receiving classified information? Were they followed?
As a crypto-nerd, it does generally frustrate me that people continue to send sensitive information over email without encryption.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @05:43PM
> My next question is then, are there procedures in place for receiving classified information? Were they followed?
When classified information is discovered on an unclassified system there is a full-blown process for tracing its distribution and scrubbing (if not out-right destroying) any contaminated systems.
However, and this is key, that requires recognition of the information's classified status. If its unmarked, as was the case with all of the email that clinton received, it is unrealistic to expect her to recognize it as classified. That's especially true of the stuff sourced from signals intelligence because it is often classified to avoid revealing sources, not the content irself. For example, information collected on a wiretap may not be sensitive at all, but the wiretap itself is top secret. If you just see the information without mention of the wiretap you won't know its classified - only the people whose conversation was tapped would recognize the existence of the wiretap from disclosure of the information discussed in the tapped conversation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @06:35PM
Dead wrong. The very existence of the information produced from a wiretap could be used to discover the wiretap, which is why information from/about HUMINT sources is classified so highly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @06:09PM
Not just prudent - failure for a clearance-holder to report mishandled classified info even if they're the one to receive it via an improper channel is a federal crime
from 18 USC 793 (f) [cornell.edu]