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To: Selectric II who wrote (338873)	12/17/2009 4:30:58 AM
From: unclewest	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 793885

Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones Looks like a million DOD employees and contractors are not enough. OPSEC was considered a dead end assignment when I served. I never had an OPSEC assignment but lived OPSEC for many years. There is an organisation I joined for a while after retiring called the OPSEC professionals. Their mascot is a purple dragon. They support Maryland based IOSS, Inter Organisational Security Support Staff. IOSS bought 700 of my books and 700 One Minute Fallout Zone Calculators - a simple but effective tool, I invented - to distribute to conference attendees, and paid me way too much to give a 90 minute presentation at their annual convention about 7-8 years ago. Purple Dragon was the name of the OPSEC operation that took several years to figure out how the NVA were getting our B52 bombing run routes in time to move their major units out of the bombing path. It was finally determined that a USAF NCO in a tiny office was dutifully reporting flight paths to an international agency that monitored international air traffic while airborne. The NVA had placed a spy in the international agency. The spy was reporting the flight paths to Hanoi before our aircraft took off from Guam etc. Today we learn a $26 off the shelf software program compromises our multi-billion dollar drone war fighting program. Meanwhile, simple and cheap IEDs compromise our entire fleet of very expensive tactical vehicles. I don't like what it means for us but do admire the ingenuity of it all. Maybe we should hire some of these folks to fight for us. They would stand in long lines to get a job paying the $1,800 we pay our army PFCs. That would be a helluva lot cheaper than the civilians and contractors we employ now, and apparently more effective too.

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