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Pres Obama's Helicopter Info Leaked via P2P

By soulxtc

A US Defense contractor has reportedly leaked classified military information about Marine One, President Barack Obama's helicopter. Triversa, an Internet security monitor headquartered in Pennsylvania, reported late Saturday that a US Defense contractor's errant use of a file-sharing network has disclosed sensitive Marine One information, including 'entire blueprints, engineering upgrades, avionic schematics'. Bob Boback, Triversa CEO, said an employee at the defense company was probably using a peer-to-peer file-sharing program - such as LimeWire or BearShare-- without realizing that it would allow outside access to top secret data. "What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, MD had a file sharing program on one of their systems that also contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One," Boback said. Tiversa also found information detailing the cost of Marine One.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on March 03, 2009 (boomark / email).