The Cabinet Files

ABC Australia has a fascinating (though horrifically formatted) story detailing classified documents that it managed to obtain.

Not being Australian, I didn’t find the particulars of the documents very interesting, but how they were obtained was fascinating:

How did you get them?

Journalism like this relies on brave confidential sources, and we’ll protect their privacy at all costs. Suffice to say no-one broke any laws.

The documents were in two locked filing cabinets sold at an ex-government sale in Canberra. They were sold off cheaply because they were heavy and no-one could find the keys. A nifty person drilled the locks and uncovered the trove of documents inside.

Now that’s a lesson in how not to do opsec.

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