http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1162065.html By Anshel Pfeffer Haaretz.com April 11, 2010 A series of failures in the protection of classified documents in the office of then-GOC Central Command Yair Naveh allowed Anat Kam to take more than 1,000 documents while working there. Eight months after being conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces, in 2005, Kam was appointed assistant manager of the office. She passed a basic security screening before she began working in Naveh's office. Every day, thousands of documents are sent from the office of the IDF chief of staff by e-mail. The most highly classified documents, however, are not distributed by e-mail, but in keeping with strict security procedures are delivered in numbered envelopes, signed for on receipt and destroyed after reading. Nonetheless, the vast majority of documents, even classified ones, are relayed through the army's internal e-mail system. In each office there is at least one computer to which the most highly classified documents are addressed, and from which, according to protocol, files cannot be either copied or printed. According to sources who worked in the office at the time, because Naveh disliked reading documents on a computer screen they were habitually sent to another computer in the office. Kam, acting on the orders of the office manager, would print them out and deliver them to Naveh so that he could read them. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Sun Apr 11 2010 - 22:25:38 PDT
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