Marine One blueprints found on Iran PC

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A company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks has discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Barack Obama's helicopter, ...

Employees of Tiversa, a Cranberry Township, Pa.-based security company that specializes in peer-to-peer technology, reportedly found engineering and communications information about Marine One at an IP address in Tehran, Iran.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29447088/
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I'm sure it'll turn out that sensitivity of the file is overblown (by the company fishing for the publicity) but this is going to a s* storm.
 
...always good to have the executive transport for the POTUS manufactured in Europe.
 
I noiced that my new company laptop has a security program that bars some program files including all file sharing applications - not that I'd be so dumb as to mess with such on the company PC. Now I know there are some who are dumb enough.

(Some former employees are dumb enough to errrrr..... view and save thousands of errrr... questionable files, too. :dunno:)
 
My wife's company, IT guy chasing down why the network traffic got so high all at once- new guy, "college-boy," third week on job, uploads his entire iTunes library, serves it out through a file share of some sort.

Smart career move.
 
I can see it now...

"Hey, remember that guy that used to work here? The one that did that thing with itunes? I wonder what he's doing now..."
 
SCCutler said:
...always good to have the executive transport for the POTUS manufactured in Europe.
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Don't even get me started. I'd rather it be a helicopter from Europe than spend 11 billion on the project in the United States.

Don't get too excited about this until we hear more. It might be stuff that the public already knew and the company is just looking for some fame. Who knows. Build it right and it won't matter if people have the blueprints.
 
jesse said:
Don't even get me started. I'd rather it be a helicopter from Europe than spend 11 billion on the project in the United States.

Don't get too excited about this until we hear more. It might be stuff that the public already knew and the company is just looking for some fame. Who knows. Build it right and it won't matter if people have the blueprints.
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I thought it was both 11 billion AND a lot of helicopters from Europe.
 
It wasn't real clear from the article, but it seemed as if it's the CURRENT Marine One. Those are, IIRC, American-made.
 
mikea said:
I noiced that my new company laptop has a security program that bars some program files including all file sharing applications - not that I'd be so dumb as to mess with such on the company PC. Now I know there are some who are dumb enough.

(Some former employees are dumb enough to errrrr..... view and save thousands of errrr... questionable files, too. :dunno:)
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Sometime I'll tell you about my current company laptop... and what they plan to do in the next version.

The current one starts with PGP full disk encryption and goes from there....
 
jesse said:
...Don't get too excited about this until we hear more. It might be stuff that the public already knew and the company is just looking for some fame. Who knows. Build it right and it won't matter if people have the blueprints.
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Yep. I FOUND IT!
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/on-board/3654/Overview#tab-facts

And the secret avionics?

  1. VHF Primary comm radio
  2. VHF Secondary comm radio
  3. Global Positioning System receiver with moving map display
  4. Radar Transponder with altitude encoder
  5. ...
 
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