I got a serious education in handling classified when I was a second lieutenant and watched the careers of a major and a colonel get blown up by an error in accounting for a classified microfiche -- an error that might have been simply an administrative typo. This provided a lot of my zeal when I was appointed the security manager for our unit, which had reams and reams of classified paper and computer media. That "additional duty" kept me awake some nights.K.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 2:22 am I'll say this about that: I've personally taken training many times on the subject of handling classified information. What she did was flat out wrong. Non-classified on a government laptop at home? Maybe, depending upon the material in question. Classified? Nope, no way. Whatever happens to her, she brought it on herself.
But in my few interactions with other agencies outside the DoD, I got the distinct impression that they did not take information security nearly as seriously as the DoD, or at least my part of the Air Force.
And over the years it has become very clear that the higher up the government food chain, the less seriously people take the rules that get the little people's lives destroyed.