Friday, 28 July 2023
Let's hope the serious stuff is more secure
Ministry of Defence accidentally emails ally of Russia
The Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation after emails containing classified information were sent to a close ally of Russia in a typing error.
The emails were intended for the US military, which uses the domain name ".mil".
But they missed out the letter i, and so the messages went instead to the West African nation of Mali.
It leaves a chap wondering how much classified information is merely uninteresting waffle nobody can remember anyway. Filing cabinets still crammed with it probably. Nobody would collapse in astonishment if the formula for gunpowder turns out to be classified.
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3 comments:
The fun they all have, yes? 😎
I find this a bit hard to believe: are we supposed to believe that a small nation like Mali just happens to have a government department with EXACTLY the same email address (bar the domain) as the US one it was meant for?
James - not much fun for the culprit though. Probably someone well down the pecking order, due to be pushed even further down.
Dave - seems odd doesn't it? Maybe they copied the names of US defence departments to make them sound grand.
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