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Chinese hackers 'steal missile plans' from US Navy contractors

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Re: Chinese hackers 'steal missile plans' from US Navy contractors

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Post by shard972 »

madengr wrote: post #2

How is classified information stolen from an unclassified network? Either the article is poorly written (most likely), or there was a serious security infraction putting classified data on an unclassified machine.

> How is classified information stolen from an unclassified network?

Hillary Clinton's emails?

> Either the article is poorly written (most likely), or there was a serious security infraction putting classified data on an unclassified machine.

Is it really that serious of an offence? Or just something republicans cling onto because it won them the election?

Re: Chinese hackers 'steal missile plans' from US Navy contractors

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Post by maxander »

shard972 wrote: post #3
madengr wrote: post #2

How is classified information stolen from an unclassified network? Either the article is poorly written (most likely), or there was a serious security infraction putting classified data on an unclassified machine.

> How is classified information stolen from an unclassified network? Hillary Clinton's emails? > Either the article is poorly written (most likely), or there was a serious security infraction putting classified data on an unclassified machine. Is it really that serious of an offence? Or just something republicans cling onto because it won them the election?

Both. It really is a significant offense, but politicians on both sides are doing it almost constantly (for example, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/us/politics/private-email... ) and no fuss is raised.

I guess the “official” US gov email system is really just a huge pain to use.

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