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2023-07-29 Cyber
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British were reminded of their failures after sending classified documents to Mali
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The accidental sending of classified documents by e-mail from the UK to Mali instead of the US indicates the negligence and lack of education of the British Ministry of Defense specialists and threatens with more serious consequences for NATO countries in the future. This opinion was shared by the head of the expert council of the Strategic Development Fund, political scientist Igor Shatrov
| ...more fully head of the Expert Council of Russia's Strategic Development Fund, Igor Shatrov, which sounds like a potential bias/mouthpiece situation... |
in an interview with IA Regnum.
Earlier , The Times newspaper reported that the UK Ministry of Defense mistakenly sent a series of emails with classified information to Russia's ally Mali, instead of the United States. Officials omitted the letter "i" in the email address, which turned out to be a mistake by the addressee. The fact is that the US address ends with the domain “.mil", but the British sent emails to the ".ml", owned by Mali. According to journalists, most of the documents sent did not contain data that could pose a security risk, but some revealed detailed descriptions of British research on hypersonic weapons. The British Ministry of Defense initiated an internal review.
| Using computers or the internet enables small errors and carelessnesses to immediately become yuuuuuge. This has been a problem for four decades or more. |
“This is an accident, negligence, inattention and simply the lack of education of clerks who work in the relevant ministry. This simply speaks of the low level and quality of work with personnel. Therefore, all reports of the alleged power of British forces and intelligence are just myths. Apparently, the time of spies of the level of agent 007 is over,” said Shatrov.
The political scientist recalled that this is not the first and not the only such oversight in the UK. For example, the situation was widely reported in the world when representatives of the British department forgot secret documents at a bus stop. Nevertheless, the expert is sure that these cases are connected with a banal human factor. Although, as Shatrov noted, such absent-mindedness of the defense department of a NATO member state raises questions and surprises.
“It is absurd to send such important documents via regular e-mail. In such departments, there should be some kind of verification system. Is it possible to send secret documents by mail? Surprising for a NATO country and US ally. The situation threatens that if they do not change the work with documents, then someday the leak will be more serious,” said Shatrov.
The political scientist also shared that he assumed the use of a closed Internet system in many NATO countries, which would send letters via a secret communication channel.
In turn, German Klimenko, Chairman of the Council of the Digital Economy Development Fund , explained that the error in sending government documents to the wrong place, if initially due to the inattention of the British department’s specialists, then the next reason is the peculiarities of using similar domains on the Internet.
“The MIL domain is occupied by US military organizations, this address may receive data from external sources. But there was an oversight, and there are a lot of similar stories with typos in writing an email address, it’s just that the situation here is becoming serious due to the mistake of the country’s military department. But now is the time not to be surprised, but to draw conclusions, and this is an occasion to check our military so that they do not make such mistakes,” Klymenko noted.
According to the expert, the Internet is still being mastered, and therefore this is the space in which failures and system lags are possible even for large corporations, and some countries may be one step ahead in this development, and someone may underestimate the capabilities of the World Wide Web . Therefore, as the expert concluded, you need to take any mailings via the Internet very seriously.
As IA Regnum reported , on July 17, the Financial Times newspaper wrote that millions of emails from the US military due to the same typo ended up in Mali instead of the Pentagon for several years. Among these messages were also letters with confidential data.
At the end of April 2023, The Sun newspaper, citing sources, reported that secret documents were found in the toilet of a pub in the British county of Cumbria , which contained information about the HMS Anson submarine. As a result of the incident, the British Navy launched an investigation to clarify the circumstances of the incident.
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