Seems there is a widespread crackdown on my favourite media outlet this week.
A few days ago, the Internet clearing house for leaked official documents cryptome.org was shut down. A sad day for freedom of information on the Web. The site was completely innaccessible yesterday, but it seems to be back up now. John has until Friday to find a new host and I hope he does. Cryptome.org is great site for digging up dirt, and I am not talking about flying saucers and the like.
Meanwhile, the US Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mails without first clearing the content with a superior officer. OPSEC rules have been recently updated and Noah Schachtman got an interview with Major Ray Ceralde, author of the new doctrine. This seems like a pretty impossible to rule to enforce, and I doubt if it will solve the problem. Word tends to have a way of getting out. I hope our military readers will still be able to post in our comments.
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Grendel added these pithy words on 05 May 07 at 12:33 pmI’m glad to see one of you three speak out for this, in the past (how do you define treason) this has already been a hotly debated topic but from a very different perspective…
The effect on military blogs, well, it’s either (pseudo) anonymous from now on or nothing. Not a good decision, but they’ll notice sooner or later. Quite possibly later.
lirelou added these pithy words on 07 May 07 at 12:05 amThe concern is legitimate, however once again the military responds with overkill. One wonders how much of this is security related, and how much related to the desire to suppress any information which places the reputations of of superior officers and NCOs in a critical light. Abrams used to say that the higher you climbed the flagpole, the easier it was to see your ***hole. An attempt, perhaps, to shield the public (and higher superiors) from seeing that one has displayed his/hers???
