Comments:New Zealander discovers US military data on MP3 player

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And I'd wonder how the Russians stole data from us.--KDP3 (talk) 19:37, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To be fair, whilst civil servants have been leaving classified documents on trains and in diners since... well, since trains and diners were invented... but the new technologies now available offer limitless opportunities for people to lose stuff. And you've got the extra fun of people's general ignorance of technology - they transfer files from computer to computer, email them home, put them on a memory stick, transfer them to a third computer, email them back, and never once think that they're leaving a copy behind each time - why would you? It's not like the real world. And because it's not real, the data itself comes to seem unimportant. Redvers (talk) 19:45, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The world is only a cluster-fuck away from discovering who made George W. Bush's underwear while he was in office. :-P --Brian McNeil / talk 19:54, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It'll be delicious if it turns out to be Victoria's Secret or Ann Summers... Redvers (talk) 19:56, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
When a journalist asked America's new Commander in Chief, "boxers or briefs?", the newly elected president said, "son, I support our armed forces... Commando all the way!". --Brian McNeil / talk 20:59, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]