Feel safer? “Missile data found on hard drives,” from the BBC, May 7 (thanks to Report on Arrakis):
…Details of test launch procedures for the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) ground-to-air missile defence system was found on a disk bought on eBay.
The missile system, tested as recently as March 2009 following a controversial missile test by North Korea, is designed to destroy long-range intercontinental missiles launched by terrorists or countries the US considers to be “rogue states”.
The missile system was designed and built by US defence group Lockheed Martin and the same computer hard disk also revealed security policies and blueprints of facilities at the group, and personal information on employees….
A spokesman for Lockheed Martin said the company was not aware of any “compromise of data” related to the THAAD programme, and no government or law enforcement agency had notified it of any such loss….
Not aware indeed.