Heathrow airport investigates USB stick security breach

[TechMan]

http://www.itpro.co.uk/security/29839/heathrow-airport-investigates-usb-stick-security-breach

Classified information regarding security protocols at Heathrow airport was discovered on a USB stick discarded on a London street over the weekend.

The memory stick contained an unencrypted 2.5GB of data with 76 folders with maps, videos and documents, and didn't require a password to access the information, according to The Mirror, which was given the USB stick.

There were at least 174 documents with some marked as "confidential" or "restricted" but which could still be read.

It even contained information about the route the Queen takes when using the airport and security measures used to protect her, files disclosing every type of ID needed to access restricted areas, and a timetable of patrols used to guard the site against terror attacks.

Furthermore, the stick, found on the pavement of Ilbert Street in Queen's Park, contained maps showing the location of CCTV cameras, routes and safeguards for cabinet ministers and foreign dignitaries and details of the ultrasound radar system used to scan runways and the perimeter fence.

Somebody is in some deep doo doo.

[freakazoid]

I'm surprised someone with that information would just lose it on a street.
" ultrasound radar system used to scan runways and the perimeter fence." 

[230RN]

" ultrasound radar system used to scan runways and the perimeter fence."  Huh?

Sonar?  For air instead of water.  As bats do it.  Maybe should be called batdar.  

Easily automated.  Echo unusual?  Go investigate.

[wmenorr67]

I'm surprised someone with that information would just lose it on a street.
" ultrasound radar system used to scan runways and the perimeter fence." 

Maybe it wasn't an accident.