but my interest in writing about much of it is very low, so I'm going to pick one thing that, by the sound of it, should have some people fired. At the least.
For US soldiers tasked with the custody of nuclear weapons in Europe, the stakes are high. Security protocols are lengthy, detailed and need to be known by heart. To simplify this process, some service members have been using publicly visible flashcard learning apps — inadvertently revealing a multitude of sensitive security protocols about US nuclear weapons and the bases at which they are stored.
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... the flashcards studied by soldiers tasked with guarding these devices reveal not just the bases, but even identify the exact shelters with “hot” vaults that likely contain nuclear weapons.
They also detail intricate security details and protocols such as the positions of cameras, the frequency of patrols around the vaults, secret duress words that signal when a guard is being threatened and the unique identifiers that a restricted area badge needs to have.
And more. And more...
Seriously, this is a HUGE screwup in security, and I tend to think BRM is correct, it'll be a big, long, and expensive work to change all this. Hoping all the while this doesn't give the PRC or Russians a way to really screw some things up.
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