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US Soldiers Accidentally Reveal Nuclear Weapon Secrets:
For years, US soldiers stationed at military bases in Europe armed with nuclear weapons were unknowingly sharing secret protocols and details on the bases themselves online.
It turns out that the military personnel were relying on flashcard apps to study and memorize the details of the nuclear weapon systems without realizing that the flashcards of highly confidential information would be available online for anyone to look up, according to a Bellingcat investigation. And the flashcards were shockingly detailed, even going as far as helping soldiers remember which specific vaults within a base contained nuclear weapons and which ones were empty — a shocking oversight for information that’s otherwise kept under lock and key.
“This is yet one more warning that these weapons are not secure,” Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, told Bellingcat.
[...] These flashcard apps appear to reveal a great deal of information. By simply looking up the names of specific bases thought to contain nukes, Bellingcat was able to find details not available elsewhere, including about passwords, security procedures, and even the locations of security cameras and information on the duress signals that soldiers are supposed to say when compromised.
[...] Some of the flashcards dated back to 2013 and as recently as April 2021.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 30 2021, @09:49PM (2 children)
You mean like how the administration in general, cabinet members and Jared and what-her-name using PRIVATE EMAIL SERVERS to conduct business on ???? Doing the EXACT SAME THING???
Staying just in computer server space, how about all of the interactions between Trump and Ukraine being copied to an offline classified server for "security reasons", which is why they couldn't produce that unclassified information when subpoenaed for it? Which, oh yeah, brings us to ignoring lawful subpoenas. Just that Ukraine investigation turned up more violations of the law than 200 hours of Benghazi hearings have with Hillary. And that whole email stuff with Hillary was not deemed illegal, as was the Trump stuff.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 31 2021, @12:07AM
The Witch Hunt exception allows the President to ignore demands from Congress.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 31 2021, @03:30AM