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]

10:18 PM on 03/02/2009

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]

06:03 AM on 03/03/2009

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

[gjohntheterrible]

07:51 AM on 03/03/2009

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

[cowman]

07:38 PM on 03/02/2009

Time to fast-track the new hueys.

[Beowolf741]

09:28 AM on 03/03/2009

The new ones aren't hueys.

[Laserbeam]

03:57 PM on 03/02/2009

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]

02:26 PM on 03/02/2009

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]

01:34 PM on 03/02/2009

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]

09:58 AM on 03/03/2009

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]

11:06 AM on 03/02/2009

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]

09:20 AM on 03/02/2009

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

[williamina]

10:00 AM on 03/02/2009

weird

[Pip1860]

09:14 AM on 03/02/2009

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

[Sundialsvc4]

08:48 AM on 03/02/2009

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]

08:35 AM on 03/02/2009

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

[Michael7843853]

01:57 AM on 03/03/2009

Exactly.

[RRK70]

03:32 AM on 03/02/2009

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]

08:33 AM on 03/02/2009

Very very interestin­g. Thanks for the input.

[Cynth]

10:58 AM on 03/02/2009

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

[suigeneris]

03:02 AM on 03/02/2009

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]

03:10 AM on 03/02/2009

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

[RRK70]

03:40 AM on 03/02/2009

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]

01:47 AM on 03/02/2009

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

09:45 PM on 03/01/2009

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]

08:30 PM on 03/01/2009

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]

09:36 PM on 03/01/2009

I'm contrite. Seriously.

[LiberalUnderYourBed]

09:56 AM on 03/02/2009

Ego alert!