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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by ritwikgupta on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:12PM (#36922927)
CONFIDENTIAL is one of the collateral security levels. It goes UNCLASSIFIED (this data can be also additionally marked CUI/FOUO, for official use only), CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, and TOP SECRET. S and TS have compartments which further gate access to information.

The software being marked CONFIDENTIAL means that it is classified software, the exposure of which can cause damage to national security.

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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by jimmyswimmy on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:07PM (#36923404)
While true, confidential restricted is not a US classification marking. It sounds more like the language on a clickwrap license installer, like what you would get for the radio programming software.

This sounds like not much. It would allow an eavesdropper to overhear LEO-type conversations or basic operational discussion but unlikely to be anything actual classified.

I have no idea of course. I don't even know where Arnold AFB is!

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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by ritwikgupta on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:20AM (#36929049)
You absolutely can have confidential restricted data, see [1].

[1] https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/hss/Classification/d...

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