From the Boston Globe via The International Herald Tribune:
In part:
"Leak of sensitive documents traced to music downloading
BOSTON Sensitive military secrets may be available through the same file-sharing software used by millions to swap illegal music and movie files. Rick Wallace, a computer user in Germany whose wife serves with the U.S. Army there, said he had used the popular file-swapping program LimeWire to download military duty rosters, discussions of tactics and other secret files. He said the problem probably had been caused by military personnel using LimeWire to download music files, unaware that they were also exposing secret information stored on their own computers. A terrorist or enemy combatant with Internet access could obtain valuable information about U.S. military operations merely by downloading it, he said…"
If it didn’t sound flaky, I’d say the government probably concocted the whole thing as an excuse to get an even tighter grip.
I wonder if the music industry is working with the military, or is given the excuse to shut file sharing.
I still hold to my last statement, I don’t think any government or military organization is that brilliant or intelligent to carry something like this off.
That’s not funny! I’ve seen…well almost seen those. They were right above my car once while I drove through the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina. When I looked out the window to see them they’d move to the other side. Tricky little devils.
