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It gets better:
The Customs and Immigration Authority chose to
cover up about the theft until is was leaked:
GAIL BATMAN: We did expect that perhaps immediately after the incident that
it would have been in the press. When it didn't, I assumed� we all assumed that
it wouldn't and if it hadn't been for this leak, I think it's not an appropriate
matter to be canvassed in public.
And then a customs minister taking about file
servers:
Senator Ellison stresses the computers did not have secrets
stored on them.
CHRIS ELLISON: As I understand it, these computer servers
are not used for top secret information and have been to facilitate information
and communication across the customs network. They did not store thousands of
confidential files as has been stated.
Lan Guy
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>Two unidentified unsubs posing as EDS contractors illegally gained
access
> >to sensitive computer equipment at Sydney International
Airport and
> >wheeled out a couple of IBM servers. These servers we
are told contained
> >confidential information and may even hold
details of ongoing
> >international investigations into terror acts.
The data could reveal the
> >identities and activities of undercover
agents from Western governments.
> >
Worse than this, the
Federal minister in charge of the Australian Federal Police and our spy agency
ASIO said that there was no way in the world anyone could get anything at all
off the hard disks as the files were routinely deleted. He said this AFTER the
report that sensitive information between the two bodies passed through these
servers. What gets me is only 2 servers were stolen and yet they were in there
2 hours "unhooking the computers" so it was said. Doesnt take that long just
to "unhook".
Seems to me someone has a lot of data they shouldnt have,
now, using the stealing of the computers to mask whatever it was they really
did. Given the media reports that the people who did it were likely to be
terrorists and not thieves, you have to wonder what just happened in
there.
Greg.
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