Apr
17
2011

MoD’s Error Leaks Secrets of UK Nuclear Submarine

Tasha26 writes “UK’s Ministry of Defence admitted that secret information about its nuclear powered submarines was leaked on the internet by mistake. A ‘technical error’ (i.e. turning the background colour of certain text to black) meant that sensitive blacked-out parts of the online MoD report could be read by anyone who copy-pasted it into another document. This accidental leak reveals, among many other things, how easy it would be to cause a Fukushima-style reactor meltdown in a sub, and details of measures used by the US Navy to protect its own nuclear submarines.”

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