Didn't see that  Peter's RAIN caught this- if so please disregard.  Just 
more ammunition for information control/policy.  It seems if you open the 
Topix link that the FBI came to the truck drivers house to look at his 
harddrive and gave him some trouble.


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Maybe something you want to share with your IT folks.

http://www.topix.net/forum/com/lmt/TPTPK7BPFHB4QOEC6
 
Full story: Hartford Courant , published Friday Apr 20 
 
Details about U.S. military weapons programs can turn up in the darndest
places.

Like gas stations.

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. said this week that a
"concerned citizen" found one of its computer memory sticks at a filling
station in Azle, Texas, a town of about 10,000 northwest of Fort Worth.
The stick contained information about the Joint Strike Fighter, the
nation's most expensive weapons program.

Pratt & Whitney of East Hartford makes the aircraft's primary engine;
Lockheed is the main contractor.

A Lockheed employee "inadvertently dropped" the device, the company
said. It said the stick contained no classified information and the
employee was authorized to have it.

"The employee was happy that his memory stick was found," said Lockheed
spokesman John Smith.

Heather Summerer, a Pratt spokeswoman, said she did not believe the
stick contained any confidential details about Pratt's engine, known as
the F-135.

Lockheed said the Air Force completed its investigation Wednesday. An
FBI spokesman in Dallas said its inquiry was ongoing and declined to
discuss it.

The U.S. government is expected to spend about $300 billion for more
than 2,400 Joint Strike Fighters, according to the latest estimates.

Glen Frausto, the truck driver who found the device, took it home for a
20-minute look-see, then turned it over to authorities, according to
Bloomberg News.

"It's kind of funny and sad at the same time that someone could lose
such sensitive information out of their pocket," Frausto told the wire
service. "It's pretty serious when you find something like that on the
ground."

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