New Zealand Man Buys Thrift-Shop MP3 Player Full of US Army Classified Information

[digip]

An MP3 player purchased for $14.50 (brown Zune?) at an Oklahoma second-hand store had an extra surprise inside—60 files containing Iraq- and Afghanistan-deployed soldiers' personal info, a mission briefing and base equipment manifests.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5139247/new-zealand-m...ied-information

Full article: http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/413551/2453415

[Keiyentai]

wow...that just...sad...god damn. I need to look for some zunes at the local thrift stores now.

[Seshan]

I hope they find the original owner and fire him for buy a zune.

[DingleBerries]

One more notch on the "all the shit that got out that shouldnt have" belt of the government.

[Learnaseyego]

hummmm..... Its good too see our tax money is hard at work keeping matters of national security..... "secrete"

[lukeh53]

wow.

thats all i can say.

wow.

[ducster]

maybe they were trying to do security through obscurity. Who would have thought someone would have boughten a zune.