At 08:30 AM 9/29/98 -0400, John Young wrote:
Now that the terrified US Army has axed its Web sites, and NSA and several other mil sites seem inaccessible and "temporarily unavailable" this morning, could this portend a dual-use of the Internet, a closed one for porkbarrell mil and secret gov sweethearts and a sappy infotainment one for civilians to gameboy infofoolery?
Well, for some months now they've password protected some of the more delicate stuff (e.g., "lessons learned", some of the field manuals). And they have been rejecting non .mil addresses too. Certainly we can expect them to eventually get a clue and think about what's out there. Mostly they have. (Of course it was within the last year that a .mil was exporting PGP!) The army's over-reaction is quaint but essentially reasonable --the W3 pages are just PR, and they're real edgy these days after they tried to scalp Osama with a tomohawk. [digression: I wonder when Osama will have his own web page with matching funds for the head of the Great Satan, and whether there would be a shootout on the net, e.g., the DNS records being changed, a phone call to their ISP] As far as the NSA's online personnel records, I bet they're still worried about the CIA shootout down the street a few years back. There's still plenty of names, phones, email addresses in the .gov domain, with building locations, etc. But Jim Bell is locked up so they're not so uptight.
That would be a tri-power-gov implementation of dual-use terror-scare to hide perkbellied privileges of natsec obsession.
They keep trying different passwords to the constitution. Its a dictionary attack: "pedophile", "droogs", "terrorist", "WMD", etc. --Ceci n'est-ce pas un Toto
These are quotes from a mil news group where this is being discussed. "Thing is, many of the Army's sites offered a wealth of information, unclassified, and readily available in hardcopy, to anybody who wants it. To ease distribution and save millions in costs of distributing this material around the world, the Web cannot be beat, as even Hamre's directive emphasized for contracting and purchasing defense goods and educating its personnel. An West Point bozo fucked up royally by pissing an arc to show Hamre the combat guys know how to blow shit away big time -- the turkey was named in some news reports, a LtGen of Info Services -- and revelaed his prejudice toward loathsome civvy control and wily-hackered the whole damn system, "stupid jerk, fucking asshole, eat shit, fuck you," as my sqawk box mocks. Hamre will get hammered for overreacting, too, he's been whining about cyber threats for months now, when it's clear he doesn't know shit about such systems, like most of the wrinkled fucks running the natsec operation. They won't listen to the youngsters under their command, they just want to destroy something to prove their hardware prowess, being unable to wave their shriveled dicks now that they'll get cashiered for being inappropriately related to underlings. It will cost the military millions if not billions to return to a closed information system. And all those folks who were selling handy off the shelf stuff for ballooning mil siles aint gonna keep quiet -- unless they get sweetheart deals for 10 times cost for secret shit that aint worth shit to anybody except the lard asses always screaming for more protection for the Amercian people."
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