It looks as though the UK’s Ministry of Defense is about to come down hard on the person responsible for leaving a USB drive loaded with troop movements on the floor of “The Beach” nightclub in Newquay, Cornwall. The drive was picked up by a random clubgoer who promptly turned it over to the most responsible party he could think of—a national newspaper. The MoD is currently investigating the incident, but the fact is that more than 120 sensitive USB drives have been lost by the MoD since 2004—so it seems to me that the most appropriate course of action here is to stop putting classified data on USB drives and handing it to idiots. [BBC]
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USB Drive Loaded with British Military Troop Movements Found on Floor of a Nightclub
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