by expat » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:37 pm
A tourist information website promoting a small Suffolk town has had to shut down after it received a barrage of thousands of classified US military emails.
Sensitive information including future flight paths for US Presidential aircraft Air Force One, military strategy and passwords.
The senior British officer at Mildenhall air force base sympathised with Mr Sinnott, but said that the problem was hard to solve.
Sqdn Leader Richard Fryer said in a letter: "Unfortunately there is no mechanism to forcibly prevent individuals, when in their private capacity, from sending e-mails to a particular address.
"We take the matter seriously but regret that there is little we can reasonably do." ........................So sorry you keep getting state secrets in your email but there is nothing we can do about it
www.mildenhall.comMatt
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expat on Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.
"A bit of a pickle" - British translation: A catastrophically bad situation with potentially fatal consequences.
PETA
People Eating Tasty Animals.
B1 (Cat C) licenced engineer, Boeing 737NG 600/700/800/900 Airbus A318/19/20/21 and Dash8 Q-400
1. Captain, if the problem is not entered into the technical logbook.........then the aircraft does not have a problem.
2. And, if you have time to write the fault on a napkin and attach to it to the yoke.........you have time to write it in the tech log....see point 1.
