Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown

Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-01-16

U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld this week directed the armed service to strip military Web sites of information that could benefit adversaries, citing a terrorist training manual and a year-long review of the Department of Defense's 700-gigabyte Web presence.

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-17
Retired USAF (2 replies)

I recently retired from the military. I agree whole-heartedly with Rumsfield, and it should have happened along time ago. The information should never have been made public without addressing OPSEC issues. I could not imagine the vast information available today, being available during the Cold W...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-20
Retired NSA (2 replies)

No, I ain't a retired NSA person, and I doubt you are a retired USAF staff, anybody can put that in the From: line, I'd rather believe you are part of the TIA program convincing "us" that upright former USAF members are wholeheartly standing behind a policy of progressively refusing "us" our rights ...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-22
Former USAF & spouse of USMC

YOUR right to be informed? What about the rights of the thousands of men and women who serve our military in whatever capacity? Should they be endangered to satisfy your curiousity? If you want to know what our military is doing so badly, join....

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-22
Retired USAF (1 replies)

Send your email, and I'll send a copy of my retirement ID card. People can be so cynical without cause. I gave you no cause to doubt. I guess there is conspiracy all around everywhere you look....

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-26
Anonymous

does that have your SSN# on it? i'll take a copy if it does....

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-27
Former USAF Intel

I agree entirely. The mountains of Unclassified information available on the Internet can paint a picture that would otherwise be Classified and, therefore, place our troops and country at higher risk. Things such as regulations, policies, technical manuals, etc. can be used to estimate what our f...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-17
Ex-Army (1 replies)

Rumsfeld is right. The military has NO business putting out public web sites. cept for MAYBE recruit. What we use, where people are stationed, where bases are located... should be clasified. Im not saying that this will prevent people from finding the information, but do we have to HELP them s...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-21
Anonymous (1 replies)

Wrong. The government and the military both work for the United States. They do not work for Don Rumsfeld. We have a right to know where they are deployed (in a strategic sense, I agree that individual tactical level ops information should not be public AT ALL)....

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-22
Retired USAF

You are showing ignorance in the subject of war and simple mindedness thinking everyone needs this information, without consideration for the consequences, not counting the history of the consequences. Think about what you are saying !...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-18
Me

I would have thought "they" would be able to get more info from CNN. Did you see the guided tour of the Pentagon? Amazing......

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-19
Monica in Canada

I certainly agree with Rumsfeld! No one can afford to allow any 'sensitive' information go loose in the hands of the enemy, remember the famous quote, once said by Rumsfeld some time ago to the Press corps, "Loose lips sink ships".

Monica in Canada (rummy (at) mts (dot) net [email concealed])...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-20
Anonymous

I bet all of the .mil and .gov sites get mirrored, and archived somewhere for someone to review later....

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-20
Markus\ ON Canada (1 replies)

Dear readers,

U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld did what any intelligent person in his position would and should have done!

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with websites such as samspad and all the various whois sites available to anyone with a browser, but there is far t...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-21
Anonymous (1 replies)

"[S]ome companies are now posting incorrect (B\S) Information for security reasons "

Security reasons or not, the primary purpose of the .mil public sites is to serve the AMERICAN PUBLIC and the public should able to "Trust" any sites that our government has vouched. Without BSing, the DoD can ...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-22
Retired USAF (1 replies)

Where did you find this "the primary purpose of the .mil public sites is to serve the AMERICAN PUBLIC". I can only suppose you assume this. Don't forget that .mil existed long before the public had access to the internet....

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-27
Anonymous

"Don't forget that .mil existed long before the public had access to the internet."

How can we forget the history of our mighty Internet: ARPANET was the network that became the basis for the Internet. It was funded mainly by U.S. military sources and consisted of a number of individual computers...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown, too little, too late 2003-01-20
marlowe (1 replies)

Once again, the U.S. government addresses matters of web security too little, too late. The chances of Rumsfeld effectively removing "useful" information from the 'Net are slim and none. Google caches thousands of web pages, does Rumsfeld plan on purging Google's cache. Does he plan on trying to ...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown, too little, too late 2003-01-26
Anonymous

This is unbelievable! This is a discussion about "Not Helping Terrorist/Communist/Enemy Groups" with information that can be used against the USA (via the Internet for one). Yet we have some who provide MORE details about what our ENEMY "should" look for by expressing their criticisms in DETAIL! ...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-20
Anonymous

Reminds me of a map a coworker had on his wall, where I used to work. It was a rare pre-WWII railroad map that showed the major passenger routes and major Army bases. It was produced to assist people in figuring out how best to visit relatives in the service. It was rare because when the U.S. ent...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-20
Chrystoph (Disabled USN)

While I can whole-heartedly agree that Operational Security (OPSEC) is important, I do not agree that the DoD has a right to remove everything that COULD be important to a terrorist from the web.

That way lies a despotic, Orwellian government. We are already on that slope with suspension of due p...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-20
Anonymous

They have not started yet ....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=.gov+%22For+Official+Use+Only%22

I think the IG needs to get one person on staff who does nothing but investigate this type of stuff and then works with that agencies web master to have the info removed....

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-20
rahinders (at) hotmail (dot) com [email concealed]

Someone needs to make sure they do it soon...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=.gov+%22For+Official+Use+Only%22...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-20
Anonymous

Most of this type of info has been available via PAO (public affairs) forever. Web just makes it easier....

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown... had this web never been created... 2003-01-21
Sm0ken G8or

Well, its about time that this issue of national security be addressed. I just wish it was addressed back when some folks were complaining about it. They never listened back then, but now, after an enemy announces it in a training manual, the all high and mighty pass policy against it... while thi...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-22
A real retired USAF member (1 replies)

I am a real retired USAF member who worked on red teams. There is an abundance of information in public sources. You want to know where all the USAF planes are, check out your local library. No need to surf the web, a British company will send you the information via the mail. Check out the next BR...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-22
Retired USAF

Unfortunately Public Affairs doesn't take their responsibility to heart in this regard. ...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-22
Army IT Spec.

This is interesting, considering that this page contains a link to the actual DOD message, which displays all kinds of message routing information. This information should have been edited out prior to publication on the web. I don't believe the "public" has any right to sensitive DoD information,...

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Rumsfeld orders .mil Web lockdown 2003-01-23
Former USAF CompuSec Civilian

I used to gripe to anyone that would listen (from 1996 when listings started till I left in 2000) that there was way too much information on web sites. The answer I got back was that due to the "Freedom of Information Act" it was just easier to list these bits of info on the site than to make folks ...

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