Thrift store MP3 player contains secret military files

[cynatnite]

It sounds like the opening line to a bad joke. And this case was a bad joke -- for the Pentagon.

Chris Ogle of New Zealand was in Oklahoma about a year ago when he bought a used MP3 player from a thrift store for $9. A few weeks ago, he plugged it into his computer to download a song, and he instead discovered confidential U.S. military files.

"The more I look at it, the more I see, and the less I think I should be," Ogle said with a nervous laugh in an interview with TV New Zealand.

The files included the home addresses, Social Security numbers and cell phone numbers of U.S. soldiers. The player also included what appeared to be mission briefings and lists of equipment deployed to hot spots in Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of the information appears to date to 2005.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/27/confidential.mp3.player/index.html

[rcrush]

1. F'n Jack Bauer keeps loosing his ipod nano

He's really getting old.

[Mari333]

2. ah, another story about how Bush admin puts the soldiers in harms way yet again

as usual.