Our national security is in the best of hands. Not Biden. Maybe whoever in Afghanistan has an eBay account.
German researchers who purchased biometric capture devices on eBay found sensitive US military data stored on their memory cards, The New York Times has reported. That included fingerprints, iris scans, photographs, names and descriptions of the individuals, mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan. Many worked with the US army and could be targeted if the devices fell into the wrong hands, according to the report.
They cost under $200.
Where did it come from before eBay? That’s a good question. And officially there’s no answer. But one seems to have come most recently from Afghanistan.
Metadata on the device, called a Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit, or SEEK II, revealed that it had last been used in the summer of 2012 near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Where was it sitting all this time?
Exactly how the device ended up going from the battlefields in Asia to an online auction site is unclear. But the data, which offers detailed descriptions of individuals in addition to their photograph and biometric data, could be enough to target people who were previously unknown to have worked with U.S. military forces should the information fall into the wrong hands.
The how likely involves our “allies” or the Jihadis who overran the place after Biden’s humiliating retreat. Sure it could be a decommissioned military device, but those are supposed to be destroyed.
How eBay sellers obtained these devices is unclear. The device with the 2,632 profiles was sold by Rhino Trade, a surplus equipment company in Texas. The company’s treasurer, David Mendez, said it had bought the SEEK II at an auction of government equipment and did not realize a decommissioned military device would have sensitive data on it.“I hope we didn’t do anything wrong,” he said.The SEEK II with the American troops’ information came from Tech-Mart, an eBay seller in Ohio. Tech-Mart’s owner, Ayman Arafa, declined to say how he had acquired it, or two other devices he sold to the researchers.
Something for the FBI to investigate. Ayman Arafa, that is, not eBay.
The FBI is too busy creating a socialist government to rule you.
Absolutely IRRESPONSIBLE of the US guvmunt!! Why wasn’t time allowed to scrub ANTHING that had intelligence value? Because the Biden admin are a mismatched collection of bumbling idiots?
No because this was done on purpose to give China a chance to reverse engineer our technology and at the same time give them the airfield and even better is that the taliban would make $$ selling it to the Chinese ( and Iranians). See a win win for our enemies!!
How long before we can bid on equipment sent to Ukraine?
The remnants of the late once great United States that no longer exists is for sale on EBay and black markets around the globe.
Its an “estate sale.” Happens after the death of owners.
Further liquidation just occurred inc congress and was broadcast on TV to standing O’s by those benefitting most.
Didn’t you all notice a foreign country’s flag where ours used t0 be?
Good example of thieves only getting pennies on the dollar for their stolen loot. Brandon gave them $100 billion in weapons, the thieves are only getting a few $billion for their loot.
Were we to buy back our armaments for “Pennie’s on the dollar”, it would be less than we’re giving Taliban-run Afghanistan in “humanitarian aid”, getting nothing in return. But given who we typically send to negotiate on our behalf, we’d likely end up paying full retail or more.
Goon one, thanks Raymond 🙂
“good” not “goon”. My internet is dreadful currently, due to heavy rain and ancient infrastructure in the area. Even the police non-emergency phone line was down for several days 🙂