US Air Force pilots used malware-laden USB drives to plan Afghanistan missions
nephihaha
13 points
3 comments
October 15, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
nephihaha
Quote from article: "According to Henkel, Air Force personnel would buy their flash drives from local vendors rather than sourcing them from official military contractors. If they were in Afghanistan, those drives could literally come from a store in Kabul. And it wasn’t exactly the equivalent of Best Buy."
CrankyBear
The stupidity: It burns. It burns.