Our Military Is THIS Stupid?

There's this old saying that "Military Intelligence" is an oxymoron, but sadly it appears to be true....

According to images from ABC News, the RQ-170 Sentinel appears to be fully intact (or at least placed back together after crash landing). This is likely to be a huge concern for the U.S. and represents an even larger technology/security breach than the "stealth helicopter" wreckage recovered during the Bin Laden raid.

The obvious conclusion: It didn't crash - it was captured. When was the last time you saw an aircraft that had crashed that was simply "placed back together" like nothing had happened?

Me either.

So how did this happen? Oh, I have a theory.....

A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.

The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.

No information being sent outside eh? You mean like, for instance, the encryption key for the communications between the drone and the dude or dudette flying it so someone could steal the plane?

I think we have to discard the claim that there has been no compromise of classified information being "leaked" as probably false (or worse) at this point and must instead assume that the entire drone command and control system -- at best -- has in fact been compromised.

After all how else do you wind up with an apparently intact drone aircraft other than to steal it while in-flight?

I'd call the "assumption" that all was well ridiculously stupid but that would be insulting to mentally compromised individuals. Stunned doesn't quite fit my reaction to this pair of stories, taken together.

Incidentally, if I may ask an inconvenient follow-up question, how certain are we that the encryption keys for purposes such as updating the targeting (or aborting) of Tomahawks and similar weapons while in flight remains secure?