A Japanese naval officer is in big trouble after he allegedly swapped porn with a mate of his and accidentally also giving away classified information. Reuters has covered the story here.
While copying adult videos on a hard drive for his pal, the currently unnamed naval officer allegedly also copied information about the Aegis missile defense system. The aegis is used on Japanese destroyers that are to be fitted with SM-3 missile interceptors from this year as part of the missile defense program.
The naval officer to whom the adult video and aegis information was copied for is married to a Chinese woman and after taking the hard drive with the information home, investigators are worried about a possible security leak.
Any defense leak could potentially affect Japan’s biggest ally, the United States, whose navy also uses the Aegis system.
“I’m aware of the ongoing investigation,” Bruce Wright, the commander of U.S. forces in Japan, told reporters.
“We take operational security very seriously in the U.S. military. I know the Japan Self-Defence Forces also take operation security seriously.”
Spokesmen for the Defence Ministry and local police declined to comment on the investigation.
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The leak has already happened. Theres a man already on trial in the US who worked for the company that maintained the Aegis system who sold the technology blueprints to China. The worst this could happen is that this gives China a list of security codes or ship locations etc. Its how China keeps up with other with other countries without taking the risks and costs associated with developing their own technology, thus leveraging a small defense budget into a more effective one. The Japanese story just adds the funny twist of a lonely guy and porn.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/03/ap_espionage_trial_070329/
Potential racial profiling and irresponsible porn swaps…Just what the doctor ordered!
“Police launched a probe last week after a navy officer… was found to have taken home a computer disk containing information about the high-tech Aegis radar system… .”
Wait. How did the police become involved? Did the navy officer realize what happened and started the procedures when he notified his commanding officer or did someone notice that the classified information was copied when it wasn’t suppose to and that triggered an investigation or… what?
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