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RE: WikiLeaks disclosures are a 'tragedy' - CNN.com
by Rattle at 11:54 am EDT, Aug 13, 2010

I don't like blaming the victim but this is the DOD we're talking about - this is battlefield intelligence! These people ought to be prepared to handle hard core adversaries and they got pwned by a bunch of post adolescent anarchists. There are a lot of people in the hacker scene who think they know their shit but at the end of the day they are not professionals. There ought to be some hard questions asked about how this was even possible, and a certain amount of assumption of responsibility, as opposed to finger pointing and saber rattling, would be a more mature response from the DOD.

I have no qualms with laying blame on DoD. They fucked up, large. They screwed up the basic tenets of operational security surrounding SIPRNet. Heads should be rolling at DoD, NSA, DISA, and most likely several contractors. The fact this was able to occur at all indicates serious problems exist and are wide spread. It should be getting attention.

Based on what was in the chat logs with Lamo and what's been said in various articles it sounds pretty clear cut what happened. The decision was made to make as much information as possible available to analysts at forward operating bases (not a bad decision), equipment and network access was rolled out, but the accompanying protocols and procedures that ensure operational security in regards to the usage of the deployed assets were not implemented. In short, classic straightforward high consequence fucking up.

There was a chain of failures that all had to happen in series for this to happen. Manning should have had his TS/SCI clearance suspended when he was fucking up. Security controls should have forbidden him from taking writable media in and out of a secured area. Security controls should have stopped him from being able to use said media on secure machines. An audit trail should have existed for all actions on these forward deployed SIPRNet networks. There are both strictly technological and strictly meat-space controls that could have prevented this.

For all I know it's already happening... But I think Senate Select Intel should do a full investigation of the failures here.

RE: WikiLeaks disclosures are a 'tragedy' - CNN.com


 
 
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