On Wednesday, November 7, 2001, at 02:57 PM, Khoder bin Hakkin wrote:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20011107/ts/doe_netsecurity011106_1.html
The Energy Department stopped access to some of its Web sites containing
nuclear site information, citing concern over unusually heavy traffic.
The Department of Energy (news - web sites) has shut down access to some of its public Web sites, citing concern over unusually heavy traffic to online information about U.S. nuclear sites.
This is very old news. As I reported at the end of September: On Sunday, September 30, 2001, at 09:24 PM, Tim May wrote: I was checking some of my URLs for maps of nuclear power plants, maps once heavily publicized as parts of civil defense preparedness plans from the U.S.G. Guess what? Many of them are gone. The Web caches are not fully useful, as the indexed sites point to the subpages containing the large image GIFs (and other formats). So Google's cache has the first page, but all attempts to access the subpages give the same "information no longer available" sorts of messages. The main Nuclear Regulatory Commission site no longer allows downloading of maps, and results in this message: http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/REACTOR/GEOSPATIAL/lvsites.html Nuclear Site Locations This site is no longer available. For another example, http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/world_map.html "Unsuccessful Access to INSC Information
--Tim May "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." --John Stuart Mill