The exact same notices were sent about Wikileaks and Bradley Manning material.
And “you can’t make this stuff up” because you don’t have a security clearance, don’t understand the rules, and don’t understand the rules about classified leakage onto unclassified networks.
Just because something has been leaked doesn’t mean it is now declassified. All the same rules apply and classified leakage onto an unclassified computer requires that the computer be completely scrubbed.
Wikileaks, yes. Wapo? Not so much. I can see a total ban on a site that is malicious. But banning access to one story on a site otherwise accessible just proves what Wikileaks and Snowden are trying to prove. American geovernment security is a joke. A dangerous joke, because the joke’s on us.
The reasons that you describe are inherently illogical and, if anything, perpetuate an illusion of security. In computer security, if something COULD have been accessed, it MUST be assumed that it HAS ALREADY been accessed, and therefore, no longer secure.
I know exactly what you are saying because I have been told the same.
Agreed. But the silly thing...most everything that Snowden has spoken of....in a classified nature...won’t be declared open information for at least forty more years. Common sense is lacking here, and we will pay people to protect it like it was still secret, and that’s a terrible waste of time, money, and resources.