{"id":48626,"date":"2022-12-29T10:26:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48626"},"modified":"2022-12-29T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:26:43","slug":"where-to-buy-used-american-military-equipment-left-behind-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48626","title":{"rendered":"Where To Buy Used American Military Equipment Left Behind In Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Wednesday, Front Page Magazine reported the following:<\/p>\n

Our national security is in the best of hands. Not Biden. Maybe whoever in Afghanistan has an eBay account.<\/strong><\/p>\n

German researchers who purchased biometric capture devices on eBay found sensitive US military data stored on their memory cards, The New York Times has reported. That included fingerprints, iris scans, photographs, names and descriptions of the individuals, mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan. Many worked with the US army and could be targeted if the devices fell into the wrong hands, according to the report.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They cost under $200.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Where did it come from before eBay? That\u2019s a good question. And officially there\u2019s no answer. But one seems to have come most recently from Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Metadata on the device, called a Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit, or SEEK II, revealed that it had last been used in the summer of 2012 near Kandahar, Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Where was it sitting all this time?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes that the information in these devices could lead the Taliban to people who worked with the Americans who were previously unknown to the Taliban.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The how likely involves our \u201callies\u201d or the Jihadis who overran the place after Biden\u2019s humiliating retreat. Sure it could be a decommissioned military device, but those are supposed to be destroyed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How eBay sellers obtained these devices is unclear. The device with the 2,632 profiles was sold by Rhino Trade, a surplus equipment company in Texas. The company\u2019s treasurer, David Mendez, said it had bought the SEEK II at an auction of government equipment and did not realize a decommissioned military device would have sensitive data on it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI hope we didn\u2019t do anything wrong,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The SEEK II with the American troops\u2019 information came from Tech-Mart, an eBay seller in Ohio. Tech-Mart\u2019s owner, Ayman Arafa, declined to say how he had acquired it, or two other devices he sold to the researchers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arafa is a common Morrocan last name.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The media\u2019s focus is on the fact that there was unencrypted data on the SEEK devices. But a bigger story is how those devices ended up for sale. Period.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bad decisions have consequences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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