Obama’s emergency escape plan leaked online

News.com.au
Thursday, July 30, 2009

SENSITIVE documents including plans for the emergency evacuation of US President Barack Obama and motorcade routes have been leaked on a file-sharing network, authorities say.

Chairman of the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Edolphus Towns said the documents had been discovered with file-sharing program LimeWire.

Other sensitive documents found with the peer-to-peer program included FBI files, medical records and social security numbers.

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Mr Town used evidence of the leaks to argue for the regulation of file-sharing programs.

“As far as I am concerned, the days of self-regulation should be over for the file-sharing industry,” Mr Towns said.

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“In the last administration, the Federal Trade Commission took a see-no-evil, hear-no-evil approach to the file sharing software industry.

“I hope the new administration is revisiting that approach.”

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