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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.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:24PM
I once bought a truck load of government surplus desks from a state government to use in a computer training lab.
The State had got them from the Navy. Built like battle ships. Four guys to loan each desk onto the truck.
No papers inside, secret or otherwise.
Another time we got a pallet of computers from same state government surplus. They were said to have
no hard drives for confidentiality reasons. But they all had de-cabled hard drives inside, which booted up just
fine when re-cabled. Lots of interesting things on them. Some porn. Lots of email and documents.
All boring stuff.
The drives were too small for our purpose, so we sledge-hammerd them and installed new ones.
Never even bothered to tell the State. No reason to get someone fired. All sales final.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.