Science Editors Urge Nondisclosure Of Bioterror Info

Jeraph Mason writes "According to this story on ABC news, science editors want to censor their publications because terrorists may use them. It's the same argument used to prevent security disclosures from being published." There's also coverage on the BBC and at The Washington Post.

Comments

Great.

[mrseigen]

I feel really secure knowing that security by obfuscation and overblown terrorism fears, my two favorite things in all the world, are finally together.

Just tell them to submit it as a story to /.

[corebreech]

That's what I do with information I don't want anybody else to see.

Re:Just tell them to submit it as a story to /.

[Scratch-O-Matic]

Just tell them to submit it as a story to /. That's what I do with information I don't want anybody else to see.

No, then everybody will see it twice.

Chemical and Biological Weapons in 21 days

[KoolDude]

Note: This post has been deleted to prevent exploitation by terrorists reading Slashdot.

Re:same but different

[Waffle Iron]

It's a little different, though. It's much harder to issue a security patch for the human body.

Given the skyrocketing sales of duct tape this past week, I'm guessing there's a lot of people who are going to try patching anyway.

Re:Don't be fooled

[Peterus7]

Ohh, I'm so afraid of terrorists building an anti matter bomb now! Or harnessing black holes to create massive weapons of mass destruction!

It�s already too late

[scotay]

Now that they know the secret of our duct tape and plastic sheeting, it's game over. The American infidels shall fall like dominos.

This plan can't work

[Ignorant Aardvark]

Within one month of the journal censoring the gory biological details, some person claiming to be a "current employee of a large monthly biological warfare scientific journal" will post all the secret details to Slashdot under the nickname Anonymous Coward. The information will never become useful to the terrorists, because even they aren't crazy enough to view posts at the -1 threshold.

Duct Tape

[Major]

With all this sudden hooplah about duct taping your houses to be airtight, I just wanna pose two questions to the masses:

1) How are you supposed to get back inside once you've duct taped the house shut

and

2) Who's the lucky family member who gets to do it?

That's not even taking into consideration things like suffocation and duct taping AFTER a bioterrorist strike... ;-)

--=Maj

Re:Not quite the "same"

[Ed Avis]

It's all because God doesn't keep up with the new vulnerabilities and release patches to human DNA.