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Music, movie downloads expose military data to terrorists, computer hackers.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2004
By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 5--Sensitive military secrets may be available through the same file-sharing software used by millions to swap illegal music and movie files.
Rick Wallace, a computer user in Germany whose wife serves with the US Army there, said he has used the popular file-swapping program LimeWire to download military duty rosters, discussions of tactics, and other secret files. He said the problem is probably caused by military personnel who use LimeWire to download music files, unaware that they are also exposing secret information stored on their computers.
A terrorist or enemy combatant with Net access could obtain valuable information about US military operations merely...
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