http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/ Engadget Comments for USB drive goes missing with Japan-US troop deployment maps http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 3rd 2008 1:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 3rd 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/
Copy Strong!]]>Jul 2nd 2008 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/
Secondly, cracking a 128-bit encryption algorithm (which is the smallest bit size in use today), depending on the strength of the algorithm of course, varies from being accomplishable by only a handful of the very best minds in the world to damn near impossible. Anything higher than 128-bit (which of course is likely with sensitive information like this) and you have no hope whatsoever.

Luckily for you laymen, your banks use 256-bit (at least) encryption on their secure connections. In other words, if you think you could crack a 256-bit Public Key encryption algorithm then you'd already have done so and earned yourself millions through credit card fraud.

A year of work... please! In computer security, things are either now or never, you would not spend a year trying to break into something worth, I don't know, a few thousand on the black market to some over-keen amateur strategist; where you could earn millions breaking into a bank's unsecured wireless network with the root password on their server set to "s3cur3p4ssw0rd".

My point is that, as in physical burglary, computer crackers will always go for EASY targets that earn them the most per hour's work.

Oh, and to address the real concern - if another country got hold of this information, EVEN if they could break the encryption, it would be of little use to them. The US Army have probably already adjusted their deployment strategy in the situations that are outlined on the maps. Well, one'd hope they have anyway.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 3rd 2008 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 3rd 2008 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/
Well, the best minds or the best computers. (Honestly, some combination is in order.) Do you think whatever intelligence agencies would be interested in this publish it every time they break some cryptography? They do have some of the best minds (who have been at work on all crypto systems they know of for years), and some serious computing power to take it from there.

And they _are_ interested; not because they're naive enough to think nothing changed, but because the more you know of how your enemy plans, the better you can deal with his new plans. Just knowing in more detail what scenarios are being planned for training is highly valuable, even without the specific troop deployments for those situations.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/
"Luckily for you laymen" ... Thanks but I am well aware of 256 bit AES I thank you. Please choose not to bash the entire board next time. That said, good point. If it was sensitive info, it was locked up, UNLESS it was stolen off a secure computer onto an UNSECURE drive. That is a possible scenario as well.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/
Good thing you noticed the November 1941 label in the key.]]>Jul 2nd 2008 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 3rd 2008 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/
No, it didn't. At least not for shallow USAmericans who think the world ends at the Mexican or Canadian border.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 3rd 2008 3:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/
the war actually starts when i install BF1942 and ends when i install COD4.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 3rd 2008 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 3rd 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 3rd 2008 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 4th 2008 1:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/
I make me lol sometimes.]]>Jul 2nd 2008 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/
*ranks up*]]>Jul 2nd 2008 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/]]>Jul 3rd 2008 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 3rd 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/Jul 2nd 2008 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/usb-drive-goes-missing-with-japan-us-troop-deployment-maps/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE3TlKzItL8]]>Jul 2nd 2008 11:40PM