US 'eyes only' data on public servers

Information, which in the wrong hands could lead to the deaths of US troops, include schematics of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq and snaps of two military airfields outside Baghdad.

In fact AP's survey of servers run by agencies or companies involved with the military and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan found shedloads of files that officials refused to release when asked officially.

The Army Corps of Engineers had a very good back-up security plan. It asked AP nicely to promptly delete of several documents found on a contractor's server. We assume it would ask the terrorists to do something similar.

It claimed it had changed its policy since that cock-up but a week later AP downloaded 61 pages of photos, graphics and charts map out the security features at Tallil Air Base, a compound outside of Nasiriyah in southeastern Iraq. µ

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