A Kiwi bought an MP3 player in Oklahoma. No, that’s not a setup to a bad joke, but the chilling, real life ordeal that currently is the long national nightmare of New Zealand.
The problem here is that the MP3 player contains military personnel data, and revealing that information—personal phone numbers, the identities of pregnant female soldiers, social security numbers, mission briefings, etc.—violates “federal law.” (How does that work? A man breaks an American law while in New Zealand.) No reason to worry, though, as the guy has no plans to, I don’t know, leak the information via his Twitter account. (He’ll hand the files over to American officials if they ask.) Besides, the information is four years old.
You’ll note that a similar thing happened in 2006, when a bunch of flash drives containing sensitive military information was stolen and later sold in Afghanistan.
Photo: Flickr
Even if the information on the mp3 is old, it must still be kept. Technology nowadays are going very advance, so the military must be very careful on their information and must technological update themselves as well. This is no joke because these information can lead to bigger problems soon.
There was also a military camera that was sold on ebay last year
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/10/01/mi6-camera-sold-on-ebay/1