Sensitive Data On Afghan Allies Collected By The US Military Is Now In The Hands Of The Taliban

[rangerrebew]

Sensitive Data On Afghan Allies Collected By The US Military Is Now In The Hands Of The Taliban
 
Fri, Aug 20th 2021 1:48pm — Tim Cushing

The problem with harvesting reams of sensitive data is that it presents a very tempting target for malicious hackers, enemy governments, and other wrongdoers. That hasn't prevented anyone from collecting and storing all of this data, secure only in the knowledge this security will ultimately be breached.

Hack after hack after hack after hack has shown entities seem to be far more interested in collecting data than protecting data. While steps are undoubtedly taken to protect the info gathered by government agencies and numerous super-snoopy private companies, sooner or later they're never enough. It's not that these data collections are always unnecessary. It's that a breach is pretty much inevitable. And yet that inevitability almost always gets greeted as a surprise by those on the end of a malicious hacking.

What's happening in Afghanistan isn't exactly unprecedented. We saw the same thing happen when the United States military pulled out of Vietnam. The enemies that the US presence was supposed to deter were completely undeterred by local military (one we were supposed to be training to be self-reliant) left behind. We have exited one of our Forever Wars and the Taliban -- proud supporters of Al-Qaeda -- is taking over.

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[Smokin Joe]

In Vietnam, we shut off (well the Democrat Congress did) funding which was to provide for the Vietnamese air force.

In one time during the war when there were columns of troops moving down actual roads, they couldn't bomb or strafe them.

In Afghanistan, the contractors who serviced and maintained the aircraft were pulled out on June 29th. After six weeks of operations, most military aircraft will be grounded.

SSDD. The Taliban had crawled out from under their rocks and were advancing on every city in the country, and no sir support...

Democrats.