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Title: Russian Nuclear Site Blueprints Exposed In Public Procurement Database

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/20332...

Journalists from Der Spiegel and Danwatch were able to use proxy servers in
Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia to circumvent network restrictions and access
documents about Russia's nuclear weapon sites, reports Cybernews.com. "Data,
including building plans, diagrams, equipment, and other schematics, is
accessible to anyone in the public procurement database." Journalists from
Danwatch and Der Spiegel scraped and analyzed over two million documents from
the public procurement database, which exposed Russian nuclear facilities,
including their layout, in great detail. The investigation unveils that
European companies participate in modernizing them. According to the
exclusive Der Spiegel report, Russian procurement documents expose some of
the world's most secret construction sites. "It even contains floor plans and
infrastructure details for nuclear weapons silos," the report reads. Some
details from the Amsterdam-based Moscow Times: Among the leaked materials are
construction plans, security system diagrams and details of wall signage
inside the facilities, with messages like "Stop! Turn around! Forbidden
zone!," "The Military Oath" and "Rules for shoe care." Details extend to
power grids, IT systems, alarm configurations, sensor placements and
reinforced structures designed to withstand external threats... "Material
like this is the ultimate intelligence," said Philip Ingram, a former colonel
in the British Army's intelligence corps. "If you can understand how the
electricity is conducted or where the water comes from, and you can see how
the different things are connected in the systems, then you can identify
strengths and weaknesses and find a weak point to attack." Apparently Russian
defense officials were making public procurement notices for their
construction projects - and then attaching sensitive documents to those
public notices...

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