Re: List of U.S. Nuclear Sites Inadvertently Posted Online

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

Most of the GPO.gov Web pages doesn't work when writing this,
try http://www.gpo.gov/factsheet/index.html

redirecting to maintenance page
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Juha-Matti

Paul Ferguson [fergdawgster () gmail com] kirjoitti: 
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> I hadn't seen this mentioned on the list yet, so...
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> Via The Washington Post.
>
> [snip]
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> A U.S. document containing sensitive details about hundreds of civilian
> nuclear sites across the country was posted online Monday, an apparently
> inadvertent security breach that had federal officials scrambling yesterday
> to remedy the mistake.
>
> The document, a draft declaration of U.S. nuclear facilities to the U.N.
> nuclear watchdog agency, contained descriptions of sensitive civilian
> sites, including the locations of facilities that store enriched uranium
> and other materials used in nuclear weapons. It was available for about a
> day on a Government Printing Office Web site before inquiries by news
> organizations prompted its hasty removal.
>
> Nuclear experts said it was theoretically possible that the document could
> benefit terrorists contemplating an attack on one of the facilities. 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.
>
> "It is probably not that dangerous, but it is a violation of the law," said
> David Albright, a former U.N. nuclear inspector and president the Institute
> for Science and International Security, a nonprofit research group in
> Washington. "You don't want this information out there, any more than you
> would want a thief to know the location of a vault in your house."
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/03/AR200906030
> 0028.html
>
> Ironically, it has been posted to Wikileaks.org -- some of which are not
> loading right now :-) but all mirrors have it -- so that Genie is out of
> the bottle forever.
>
> - - ferg

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