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Thursday, September 15, 2011

President's flight plans on the internet: WTH?

I think this has to be one of the most overlooked stories in the media this past week. According to an article in The New York Times this past Sunday, some average working joe in Japan posted President Obama's Air Force One flight plan on the internet last November--on his blog--and really, just so he could show his friends. WTH? Are you kidding me? How in the wide, wide world of sports did that happen? How was that possible? The guy is an air traffic controller over there and in his 50's. He "posted 12 pages of delicate information that included flight plans of a Global Hawk drone that was gathering radiation readings near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant..." So much for security, there, eh, Japan? Links: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/world/asia/11japan.html?scp=1&sq=japan%20obama&st=cse; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14867129

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