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redirecting to maintenance page http://www.gpo.gov/maintenance/error.htm Juha-Matti Paul Ferguson [[email protected]] kirjoitti: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I hadn't seen this mentioned on the list yet, so... > > Via The Washington Post. > > [snip] > > 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 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
