Sensitive US military info exposed in accidental emails to Mali

They sent it to Mali since the Pentagon uses .mil and Mali is .ml

This is vastly less significant than the headline or the article would lead people to believe.

Yes, such emails COULD be harvested and examined by someone; but doing so would take a deliberate effort that (UNTIL NOW) has not happened.

And, oh by the way, it would be obvious IF such a deliberate effort were being made due to the way that Domain Name Servers handle routing emails. All mail addressed to various sub-domains does not automatically go to a single server for the Top Level Domain (the .mil or .ml) all the subdomains need to be listed in a table maintained on every Domain Name Server around the world.

How many such "accidental emails" have been sent is also rather dubious. How often to people really type an email address rather than just picking one from our contacts or address book or a link? What are the chances that you would manually TYPE an email address AND just happen to magically omit the i in mil rather than any other error? Off hand, I would guess that rather than omitting the i in mil, someone would be much more likely to hit a space or a comma instead of the . before mil -- which would send the email to an entirely different Top Level Domain. (Yes, the top level domain ARMY does exist and no it doesn't belong to our army or anyone else's army. The top level domain ARMY belongs to "Rightside/Demand Media (United TLD Holdco Ltd").

Well, this isn't good news. And it was entirely preventable. Where is/was the 6 on this?