Hundreds of top-secret and highly classified cabinet documents have been obtained by the ABC following an extraordinary breach of national security.
What's scary is that the person who found it could have been totally mercenary about it and contacted the Chinese or Russian embassies and flogged them for a profit. God forbid, even worse they could also of contacted the commercial media (also for profit) such as channel 7 or channel 9 and we poor mortals would be exposed to "sensational" rubbish for weeks on TV and print.
It's almost certain that foreign agencies already have this kind of information, either because of insiders, security attacks, or security snafus. You just don't hear about it, except when cases like these happen. When the Snowden revelations emerged, my immediate thought was, for every Snowden, there are probably 50 venally motivated individuals who have already divulged the information, on the quiet, to "interested parties". Snowden's "crime" was to make it public. Likewise, we have the many public security breaches (e.g. the ones around Wannacry). There is much handwringing and the standard "we'll do better in future" - yet Wannacry was a very simple attack which exposed how disastrously bad our defences are. And this almost certainly means that the systems have been infiltrated and subverted many times, we just don't know about it because, other than ransomware and revenge, there is a strong motivation to keep the fact of the infiltration secret.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/38791393/rudd-launches-legal-action-against-the-abc/ http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...ure-leaked-cabinet-files-20180131-p4yz5x.html
