Ebay Used Laptop Exposed Germany’s Fragile National Security
A used laptop sold on eBay consisted of the proof of German military’s failure at protecting its national security and defense strategy. With a mere 128 MB of functioning memory, the laptop held the most confidential information — without any digital security protecting it — the manual and schematics of a missile system currently used by the German air force.
The reported laptop was probably part of the German military once and was only decommissioned years ago. Nevertheless, technology isn’t as simple and the hard drive of the laptop — when it was sold — was still holding on to some crucial information about a critical German military weapon system that is still in use. More than unsafe, the defense ministry called the event ‘embarrassing’.
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