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posted by janrinok on Thursday February 01 2018, @06:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-the-cabinet-was-locked-your-Honour! dept.

Filing cabinets containing thousands of classified documents from the Australian government ended up being sold at a secondhand shop, prompting government officials Wednesday to launch an investigation into how the highly sensitive documents were disposed of.

The cache of documents was obtained by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which reported the two cabinets were sold by a Canberra furniture shop at a discount price because they were locked and no one could find keys." http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/01/31/top-secret-files-left-in-filing-cabinets-sold-at-second-hand-shop.html

Nearly all the files are classified, some as "top secret" or "AUSTEO", which means they are to be seen by Australian eyes only.

But the ex-government furniture sale was not limited to Australians — anyone could make a purchase. And had they been inclined, there was nothing stopping them handing the contents to a foreign agent or government.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by DECbot on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:05PM

    by DECbot (832) on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:05PM (#631651) Journal

    I wish shills would use their journals instead of cluttering the articles. What does classified documents in a locked dresser sold at a pawn shop have to do with codified tax evasion? "I'm fed up with classified documents sold in locked filing cabinet! So, I'm not giving any more taxes to the man! Fuck schools! Fuck roads! Fuck clean drinking water! I want to live in a shithole until these filing cabinet crises stop!"
     
    If you don't want to appear to be a shill. Connect your argument to TFA, or TFS, or at minimum the parent post. So, tell me again how setting up a tax evasion service is related to classified Australian documents sold in a filing cabinet? Or related to the notion that everything is Australia will fucking kill you? At least provide a link for your service, fuck if I'm going to bother googling for it.

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