Nuclear sites list shows up online
p2pnet news view | Security:- Details of hundreds of civilian nuclear sites across the US, and which might have been useful to terrorists, was online for at least 24 hours.
It was a 267-page draft, “intended as a formal declaration to the International Atomic Energy Agency as part of U.S. obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,” says the Washington Post.
It contained descriptions of sensitive civilian sites, including the locations of facilities that store enriched uranium and other materials used in nuclear weapons.
Inquiries by news organizations, “prompted its hasty removal,” says the story, noting the document, first reported by the Secrecy News blog, was available for about 24 hours on a, “Government Printing Office Web”.
“Nuclear experts said it was theoretically possible that the document could benefit terrorists contemplating an attack on one of the facilities,” says the story, adding:
“Still, because the information was unclassified and most of it is publicly available through other sources, the release generally was deemed more embarrassing than harmful.”
Washington Post – List of U.S. Nuclear Sites Inadvertently Posted Online, June 3, 2009
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June 5th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I wonder how much the government paid to ave that document leaked, so it could use
potential terrorism to justify net suppression, regulation and censorship.
Governments of all nations are scared shitless of the nets ability to shine light in dark
corners, so while this might sound like a paranoid notion, that doesn’t mean it’s not
possible.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I would be more impressed if the document actually showed military sites. As the theorists say, civilian info is readily avail if you are willing to look, just like searching in a phone book.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I think abject stupidity is far more likely. It’s not unlikely some dummy bureaucrat who got his job because his uncle is a Senator handed the papers in a wad to IT and they got put online. Most of those dopes don’t have the savvy to pull off anything even remotely computer related.
June 6th, 2009 at 1:03 am
Hippie: Agreed 100%
This is also my basic problem with the term “terrorism”:
Is it “terrorism” when the U.S. Government arms and equips people like Bin Laden/most of the people involved in the “Insurgency” in Iraq?
After all, Bin Laden was our pal for years, when he was useful to our proxy-war efforts over in Afghanistan.
But now we’re supposed to regard “Al Quaeda” as a “terrorist threat”.
The biggest “terrorists” are governments, and always have been.
ALL States are “rogue states”, to a greater or lesser degree.