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There was nothing in the story saying confidential files were stored in his AOL account. Also nothing about when the account was last used. There was a time w
by gideon_b 11y ago
There was nothing in the story saying confidential files were stored in his AOL account. Also nothing about when the account was last used.
There was a time when we all had noisy modems and AOL accounts.
- baconner 11y agoI think these qualify. You are free to disagree. CIA Director John Brennan’s private account held sensitive files — including his 47-page application for top-secret security clearance — until he recently learned that it had been infiltrated, the hacker told The Post. Other emails stored in Brennan’s non-government account contained the Social Security numbers and personal information of more than a dozen top American intelligence officials
- cvwright 11y agoNot quite. Confidential is a technical term in the military/IC world. It's a classification, just like secret or top secret. I read somewhere that a lot of the Wikileaks cables were supposedly stuff marked confidential. Storing confidential material in an AOL account would be a crime, just like giving the same material to Wikileaks. Brennan's PII, job history, etc. is certainly valuable information, but clearance application paperwork itself is unclassified.
- baconner 11y agoOk then my mistake - there's nothing in the article that says they were files classified as confidential.