10:17 Nasa continues to sell used computers with classified data | |
Usually in films about corporate espionage (or spying scientific) show the main characters, passing the fire, water and copper pipes to obtain the desired nuggets of information. However, in real life simpler - Spies enough to track the sale of obsolete computers, which suit the organization like NASA. More than once or twice normal, law-abiding citizens found on hard drives purchased a PC or laptop confidential information to which a mere mortal in the usual way to get access can not. But still, reckless organizers sales selling techniques with such data, it can recoup the money spent on equipment thousandfold. Now on this occasion is even a formal investigation within NASA. Testing is vital, as is now coming to an end 30 years of space program, and the agency is going to make a massive sale of obsolete and outdated equipment. In principle, the initiative is completely rational, not counting how much is passed confidential information is not clear to whom. The very first audit showed that old equipment can carry is not outdated information, which is in the right hands can turn into hundreds of millions. Security breaches have been identified in many parts of NASA, including those that constitute the main "body" of the agency. For example, some hard drives of old PCs were found pieces of information about the program to create "space shuttle". Yes, the information is a bit outdated, but the relevance is not lost. It should be noted that the same test revealed only one case of sale of more than a dozen used computers and laptops, hard drives that contained extremely important, though, and fragmented information on the U.S. space program. Needless to say, that this information is kept secret as much as possible. So, who wants to obtain secret information - enough to hack the server, just buy what sells on sales NASA. Interestingly, as the Pentagon or the CIA arrange such sales? Via BBC | |
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