Top Secret Israeli Army documents available!

I just came by this post today, claiming that an Israeli reserve officer found top secret documents on the Israeli Tzahal-net. How he came by them? By searching for Top Secret. Duh.

If this is not bad enough, when the Israeli officer sent a complaint, all he got in return was "Yes, we know of this problem". A year later, the same officer did the same search, and found a new batch of Top Secret classified documents.

The first time should have been enough!

What can we learn from this? People are lazy. They tend to spend less time thinking than doing. Add to that lack of understanding and knowledge, and you soon have a disaster at hand.

Awareness training will help. Teaching the psychology of information management will help. Good systems and methods surely help. But if there are no incentives to follow the rules, people will avoid them if it is easier to do so. 

In cases like this, it is important to statue examples of bad behaviors, and make it hurt if you catch someone breaking the rules.