See here: Prosecutors claim Bradley Manning wanted to remove 'the fog of war'. The man used terrible l33t hacker tools to download top-secret crap! Well... not exactly. His tools were just a program called 'wget' which – surprise! – comes with every installation of Linux. And if he was able to download these cables with wget, it can only mean one thing: the data was not secured adquately. It was just waiting for someone to get it.
What troubles me is the fact that, given current mentality of powers that be, they may seek to ban the software rather than ban the insecure military networks. Because who knows what those evil "hackers" would come up with next! They may even use the copy command to copy the top-secret über-sensitive data to that most evil of all evil implements, the USB flash drive! Or they can use that dark and obscure technology called 'CD burning' to somehow take the data from the top-secret über-secure computer with no USB sockets and removable storage... oh wait... there's that CD-RW drive and no policy forbidding it's unauthorized use.. oh crap...
Well, basically the trial shows that all that technobabble US Army likes to throw around ain't worth crap. They're just as technologically illiterate as those Afghan shepherds they kill. Looks like the whole affair could have been prevented by readin some book in the vein of "System administration for complete retards". World's most technologically advanced military force, my ass...
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