The problem is that every time an unclassified government computer visits a site displaying the TS slides it is considered a spillage of classified material and the computer must be cleaned.
For those not following this reply. NIPER net is the military unclassified unclassified network and SIPER net is the classified network. The SIPER net and the NIPER net do not touch each other for spillage reasons.
Reminds me of John Wayne playing the cruiser Captain , “In Harm’s Way”, after his ship was torpedoed by a Japanese sub and he told his CommO to radio Pearl Harbor of the attack. The CommO responded, “Should we break radio silence?”, and the Duke replied, “I think the Japs know where we’re at!”
Once the classified material has been broadcast, it’s foolish to continue a charade that it is classified, for now it encumbers friendlies more to ignore it, than to revise their current estimates of the situation.
This policy manifests a far greater weakness in US defense strategy. Our leadership has moved towards centralized command and control and away from decentralized control. This means an enemy only has to focus on defeating the centralized control structures to defeat the nation. That’s easy. Attempting to defeat a decentralized control structure is never easy, but resource intensive, possibly draining the resources of an adversary.
That’s a good point, though I thought the NSA had declassified PRISM to show that it’s “not a big deal” or some such nonsense.