NSA accidentally leaks more secrets after 'Red Disk' was left on unsecured AWS server

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Who needs Edward Snowden when the NSA is so careless with its own data?

More US security secrets have been leaked online after the virtual image of a disk drive containing sensitive information was found, unsecured, on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) server.  Chris Vic...

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