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Grad Student's Work Reveals National Infrastructure

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the kick-me-here dept.

CodeHog writes "The WP reports about a student working on a PhD and how it relates to national (US) security. Very interesting that he has been able to get all this information. It raises some very challenging questions, should some of this information be classified?"

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  1. Well.. by Gortbusters.org · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the background, he plays the Beastie Boys.

    He's got the right to party!

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    1. Re:Well.. by reverseengineer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Given his research, wouldn't Sabotage be a more appropriate track?

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  2. This should be classified by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This software is used in the firmware of WMDs! It should be taken of the public internet immediatley!

  3. Link please! by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't figure out how to download his dissertation. I want to judge for myself whether "tedious and unimportant" is an apt description.

  4. Public + Public + Public = Classified by fuzzeli · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's very interesting the way that an assemblage of publicly available information is suddenly a matter of national security. This must be based on the assumption that evildoers are never grad students.

  5. Just Like In The Movies by Lagged2Death · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Tedious and boring?" He's got an application that can actually do some of the stuff Hollywood hackers have been doing for years. How could anyone think that's boring?

    "Tank, find a structural drawing of this building. Find it fast."

  6. Re:Reminds me of a job I did in London by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'd look awful suspicious if it did happen, what with that giant map with all the targets labelled and all...

  7. Maybe... by vasqzr · · Score: 5, Funny


    With all this information, maybe he can tell me when they're going install my damn DSL line...

  8. that's classified information by boomerny · · Score: 3, Funny

    we could tell you but then we'd have to kill you - Verizon

  9. Re:Reminds me of a job I did in London by dr_dank · · Score: 4, Funny

    Buckingham Palace, Houses of Parliament, the big wheel thing, ministry of defence, big office blocks, army barracks, more palaces...

    I don't think Osama could keep a straight face if he were to declare jihad on the "big wheel thing".

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  10. As he said... by SoSueMe · · Score: 5, Funny
    "...It's hard to put 'classified' on your list of publications on your résumé."


    Actually, it would be easy for me to put "classified" on my list of publications on my résumé. It is just the "mostly as bullshit" part that wouldn't do me any good.
  11. Re:Reminds me of a job I did in London by perly-king-69 · · Score: 3, Funny

    11/9 surely?

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  12. Re:You all have to decide by freuddot · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't usually answer people signatures. However, given that yours is :

    "Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage." -Naomi Littlebear

    And that your first sentence is :


    That's a huge oversimplification. I wouldn't even respond to such a troll had some ill-informed moderators not decided to mod it up to a 5 and make it the first comment on the page.

    I must say that this is a very nice display of consistency.

  13. Re:Just look at your surroundings by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course, the government's response to your story would be to classify the information you just provided, rather than to tell the building security to close the door.

  14. Re:Obligatory Sept. 11 quote by daBum · · Score: 3, Funny

    But are we still pre-post-post-post-Modernism? Or did I miss it?

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  15. Re:Obligatory Sept. 11 quote by fr2asbury · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, last time I checked it was early July. I'd say this is a PRE-September 11th world.