Thursday, October 28, 2010

Pentagon Works To Stop Future Wikileaks Releases

How The Pentagon Aims To Prevent More Wikileaks Releases -- Christian Science Monitor

After the Wikileaks release of 400,000 documents on Iraq, Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn explained some of the new monitoring tools being considered.

The Pentagon is looking at ways to increase security of its classified files among its own personnel after Wikileaks' release of 400,000 classified documents on Iraq and the expected leak of tens of thousands more.

Visiting Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn told a group of reporters late Tuesday that one of the measures being considered were checks that would flag suspicious access to data, similar to the alerts by credit cards companies designed to prevent fraudulent charges.

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My Comment:
I live In Quebec, and in the 1990s the police discovered that some government employees in the license bureau were providing confidential and home information to biker gangs who were at war with each other. In response to this grievous abuse of information, government agencies (including police departments) installed software that tracked unauthorized or suspicious computer usage. The Pentagon could (and should) do the same thing, and in return I am sure that it will stop (or red flag) any future abuse and/or unauthorized use on their computer networks.

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