US Space stupidity.

More continued to rattle the Wikileaks scandals about leaks of classified materials of American diplomatic missions in the United States broke new scandal that could cost the United States a much larger loss than the first. Today it was announced that NASA accidentally sold its secret materials. What does the importance of some of them threatens all further development of the US space program, well, or, at least, can turn into a multibillion-dollar losses.
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US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has implemented batch of computers, forgetting the pre-erase disks with their secrets.
The internal audit found that at least ten computers have been sold with the classified database.

Files contain
a detailed schedule, results and evaluation of the test individual components and assemblies shuttles. In addition, some machines have been installed access codes to the internal network NASA.
According to experts, if they fall into the hands of hackers, hacking will be threatened several major servers, including control tests at the launch site.

What information was lost forever - not known: duplicate files at NASA was not.
Also, nothing is reported about the organizations and individuals that could potentially ill-fated purchase computers.
According to some data, it's small shops office equipment, on the other - law firms.

"Our examination found serious violations in the methods of the security of NASA, which could lead to undue publication of classified information related to the Space Shuttle and other programs - said the Air Force Chief Inspector Paul Martin Agency. - It is necessary to take coordinated and effective action to resolve this problem ».

It is possible that in the very near future, some of the "sell" materials may appear in the public domain on the Internet.

"This could lead to a number of scandals and accusations against the leadership of NASA", - said an independent expert James Pollard, recalling that non-compliance with basic safety measures in the agency is not rare.
So, in 2007, the public domain has become the coded statements, according to which wrongly ordered NASA should cost $ 94 million allocated for the purchase of equipment.

In total, the closing of Space Shuttle program, NASA plans to sell several thousand of its computers.

In fact, NASA held a lottery among the inhabitants of the United States. Buying kopek computer somewhere on the flea market, anyone can become the owner of the file worth millions of dollars. Surely America is now all on the ears in search of these files. It's like the gold rush and the search for ultimate treasure maps. If the files will flow away, it then they will be resold from hand to hand, and each sale will raise the price of such information at times. In general, expect new Assange, breakthrough discoveries in the Iranian or North Korean missile program and the emergence of new millionaires around the world.

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