:: Deepquest ::

Research by Associated Press has found classified military documents widely available on the internet.

The documents include blueprints of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq, together with geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad.

Plans for a new fuel facility at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan are also accessible online.

The documents were found on Army servers and those of their contractors. Much of it was stored on unlisted FTP sites, which some contractors believed made the documents impossible to find.

For example, contractor SRA International left documents on an unlisted FTP site that could allow hackers to get into US Defence Department computers. The company said that it was unconcerned by suggestions that this might be unsafe.

“The only way you could find it is by an awful lot of investigation,” said SRA spokeswoman Laura Luke. The company has since taken the FTP site down.

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