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Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases

Posted by timothy on from the we-never-said-that dept.

unix guy writes: "Our good friends and protectors in the U.S. Gov't have decided that what we used to know we can't know any longer. This LA Times story talks about libraries being ordered to destroy existing government reports and data sources in the name of homeland security." Is it really a fair trade to give up readily-available information about "airports, water treatment plants, nuclear reactors and more"?

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  1. nothing new here by Xross_Ied · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    trust us you don't need to know this stuff.

    welcome to the united police state of america

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    1. Re:nothing new here by Xross_Ied · · Score: 2, Flamebait

      sorry you think so..

      Anytime information is destroyed its a bad thing, does not matter if its by a private corporation or the goverment (especially the government).

      Instead of asking the libraries to make this information MORE SECURE*, they are asking that the information be destroied.

      * security could be something as simple as..
      a) stored in a reseved area
      b) accessiable only after you have presented a drivers license or some other photoID.

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  2. HOORAY by arseonick · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    God bless America, land of the free!