Obama Helicopter Security Breached: Report

MSNBC:

A company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks has discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Barack Obama's helicopter, NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh reported Saturday.

Read the whole story: MSNBC

Comments

[DangerWillRobinson]

With the Telecommunications Act in full tilt, what exactly is the NSA doing with the info?

How come it took a private security company to find something that was just sitting out there, on the internet.. Yet the company's that we've given up our rights to privacy to are sitting on their thumbs?

Thank you George Bush. Thank you Repugnicans.

[blico]

You mean that 6 weeks after the coronation our rights to privacy are still being infringed? Dosen't seem possible!

[gjohntheterrible]

The NSA is too busy listening to people having phone s e x.

[cowman]

Time to fast-track the new hueys.

[Beowolf741]

The new ones aren't hueys.

[Laserbeam]

Does McCain know about this? He did try to torpedo Obama for spending money on a new helicopter....

A Message to the Secret Service: PROTECT OUR PRESIDENT!

[lvdragonlady]

I bet the a GOP supporter had something to do with this, if it really happened.
It appears that the Secret Service is NOT doing their job.

[TheQuestion]

Does anybody else here wonder if this "breach of security" has anything to do with the Italian company that's making the new zillion dollar copters ?? It seem strange that this comes out now that there is some question about the status of that contract ??

[DuPageDem]

Yep, bingo. The same contract that appears to be payoff for Italian collusion with Bush in fabricating "evidence" used to sell the war in Iraq. Yet another crime that needs to be investigated.

[Cynth]

This is alarming and amature. I feel like this was pulled from an episode of 24. Are there not tight security policies and procedures in place at these firms? Do we not ensure that they have them (and enforce them) before awarding contracts? Are employees not trained (and re-trained) in fundamental security and technical protocols, at least? Are systems and people not monitored? For goodness sakes, I do this (and more) with my own business and my clients, and none of them is the President of the United States.

[BarackDaVote]

Time for a new and better one.....Thanks old man McCain you did us a big favor.

[williamina]

weird

[Pip1860]

It's John Mcain sitting idle at home on his PC all day.

[Sundialsvc4]

I sincerely doubt that the security surrounding the President of the United States is nearly so "porous."

But I definitely see no reason why it needs to be openly discussed.

"Loose lips sink ships."

[42tom]

The question is why would this company allow file sharing capabilities on its networks if they deal will such sensitive information?

[Michael7843853]

Exactly.

[RRK70]

If this news is taken with the recent news about the contracting fiasco regarding the Marine One upgrade program under Bush, this doesn't seem all that surprising. Note:
1) Bush awarded the Marine One contract to Lockheed Martin, who doesn't make helicopters
2) Lockheed Martin subcontracted to a "sister" company that DOES make helicopters in Italy
3) This Italian company , Finmeccanica, also has contracts with Iran, among other nations.
4) For all we know, the specs for "Marine One" and "Ayatollah One" are one and the same!
5) Don't you love the world of defense contracting, where there are no allies or enemies, just customers?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-klein-and-paolo-pontoniere/helicopters-cover-ups-and_b_167568.html

[instagladiator]

Very very interesting. Thanks for the input.

[Cynth]

You make excellents points here and below, RRK70. Thanks.

[suigeneris]

This is totally and completely astonishing, and if true, should completely end that defense contractor's business with the gov't for the future.

What company with even *business*-level security files, much less TOP SECRET files on its network, would allow the download and installation (and port security openings necessary to function) of file sharing P2P software?

That is ABSURD. Don't fire the employee who did it, fire the whole company.

[RoseMerry]

Agree! And no one who is responible for that computer EVER gets a security clearance again for LIFE!

[RRK70]

I think a huge portion of the US defense and intelligence apparatus would disappear if this company were to be "fired". Ever hear of too big to fail? I also recall hearing that the Bush Admin, in it's ever astonishing incompetance also continued to award contracts to a German company that had been found to be trying to seel aluminum tubes to North Korea.

We make a mistake by assuming that our government, by it's size and budget, is somehow competant.

[RTIII]

These file sharing programs are a great way of disseminating false information.
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[johnnynyc]

Why are we revealing we can look at the contents of pc's in Tehran?

Unless Iranians have some agents in the USA who are going to attack Obama's helicopter, and nobody is claiming that, the main concern is the technology in the helicopters remain secret.

The bogus headline notwithstanding Obama is as secure as he was before the Iranians apparently got their hands on the schematics and posted them on an easily accessed computer to let us know they had the plans.

I hope somebody fills out the detalis of this story in the next couple of days because as it stands now it's not making a whole lot of sense.

[SailFree]

It would appear that the major exercise HuffPost folks get is leaping to conclusions and casting aspersions. If those were Olympic sports, HuffPost would probably lead the gold medal count.

Seriously, if we find out who was rather careless with a computer, I suspect it will be just someone who was careless. Might even have been a liberal! We don't know anything yet.

"The guilty flee where no man pursueth."
--Shakespeare

"The far-left ideologues smell things that even bloodhounds can't"
--SailFree

[RadLeftVetPatriot]

I'm contrite. Seriously.

[LiberalUnderYourBed]

Ego alert!