Top-Secret Cyber Saboteur

Speaking of the military's wiggity-wack cybersecurity: "A former government contractor whose top-secret security clearance enabled him to sabotage Navy 6th Fleet computers" has been sentenced to a year in prison, the *Virginian-Pilot *reports.

He confessed to programming malicious software codes into computers that track Navy submarines in May 2006 while in Naples. He told Navy investigators that he was upset that his company's bid on a project was passed over...

Three of five computers that he sabotaged were shut down. Had his plan succeeded in reaching all five, the entire network would have been disabled.

"The Navy would have been blind," Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Krask told the judge.

Via Schneier, who says, "I'll bet you anything that Microsoft has more security around its critical code than the U.S. military does."

(High five: Haninah, Nicholas Weaver)