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A man from New Zealand discovers US army information on second hand MP3 player, according to reports from New Zealand TV

The person at the center of this story Chris Ogle claims he discovered the US army information files when he went to download music from the internet to his MP3 player one afternoon.

The New Zealander says found the secret data regarding US military personnel on an Personal media player he bought from a second hand shop in Oklahoma, USA.

Chris Ogle, 29, said: “The more I look at it, the more I see and the less I think I should be looking.”

These secret data files include the telephone numbers and names of US armed forces personal, according to news reports by a New Zealand TV channel.

Nevertheless, the Pentagon can relax a little, as according the opinion of one expert, these confidential files in question, should not be cause for a security risk, as they are dated from 2005, therefore are already 5 years old.

Still there could be some embarrassment in the top brass, as various files found included the warning that the release of this information is “prohibited by federal law”.

Along with the personal details of the US soldiers, including a list of their social security numbers, the digital files also recorded pregnant female troops, who will by now be female troop mothers, and apparent briefings of missions in Afghanistan.

A spokesman from the Center for Strategic Studies in New Zealand, said of course that while this information should not be circulating in the public domain. He felt it was not likely that it would have a negative affect on US national security.

“This is just slack administrative procedures which are indeed a cause of embarrassment,” he said.

Mean wile Mr Ogle, from Whangarei, said he would hand over the digital files to the US government if required to do so.

Currently there is no statement from the US Embassy in New Zealand.

This is not the first time that such laps in security surrounding secret US military information stored electronically.

In 2006 Afghanistan, it was reported that US investigators recovered stolen flash memory drives that contained sensitive US military data from local shops in Bagram just by a main US base there.

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Set your music free with a new digital audio player, or MP3 player, as they are commonly known. With an MP3 player it is easy to shuffle your songs in any order and you can hold your entire music collection the palm of your hand. But where is your music actually stored?

It was common in the past, for MP3 players to use an internal mini hard drive to for data storage. Having a mini hard drive means the MP3 player has lots room to hold music files. The Apple iPod Classic MP3 player has up to 160GB storage and Archos also has players with similar capacity. One of the drawbacks though, of using mini hard drives in MP3 players, is that they make the players more bulky and heavier. They also demand more power to run, so potentially decrease the battery run time.

More recently MP3 player manufactures have started using flash memory to replace mini hard drives. There are now very few MP3 players that use hard drives. Instead they have an inbuilt flash memory chip and often have a slot to hold a second flash memory card, thereby increasing the player’s memory.

Flash memory players have several advantages, they can be much smaller and lighter. Flash memory uses much less power than a hard drive, so batteries last longer. The player can also access your files more quickly from flash memory than from a hard drive.

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There’s more to an MP3 player than just music. Almost all MP3 players now come with a color display in a range of different sizes. The smallest are usually 1.8 inch and they can be as big as 4.3 inch or 5 inch. This has transformed MP3 players into videos players too. While watching full length movies on 1.8 inch screen may not be practical, it’s still fun to watch short video clips or music videos. The larger screen MP3 players can come with 16:9 ratio screen, and it’s a perfect way to watch movie.

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