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Fiber-Optic Map: A Classified Dissertation?
An anonymous reader writes "So you spent all that time researching, compiling and formatting your dissertation ... now what if it became classified information? That's exactly what may end up happening to Sean Gorman's dissertation.
He's compiled a detailed map of American companies and the networks that bind it all together, right down to the very last fibre connection.
The government wants it classified in the interest of national security. Large financial institutions want it classified/destroyed in the interest of economic security. But terrorists would love for this to be published ... it would make their job so much easier." If Gorman can map the fiber network though, doesn't that mean someone else could do the same? Update: 07/09 13:06 GMT by T : Sorry, I blinked past the story as posted yesterday.
Seems awfully familiar. Slashdot should look into applying some AI to submissions to see if it shares a high number of key words with a recent submisison.
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Once it's posted to /., the dupes will ensure it never goes away!
You can read more about this here.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I'm sure technology for detecting duplicate Slashdot stories is classified as well. Slashdot editors want it to stay secret. Trolls would like to see it stay secret as well else they'd have less to troll on about.
Only die-hard Slashdot readers would like to see such a technology because it would make our lives much easier.
Get back in the basement, Lazlo!
The article conspicuously lacks any link to the website of John Young, although it references it in the article. So the two that I found are here and here.
Here in Ohio we had a backhoe hit one of UUnet's main fiber backbone knocking out service for most of the state for 3 hours.
I think that his thesis should be published and given to all the fine backhoe operators out there who thought that "that cable didn't look it was being used".
Just your average farmer.
Just your average Farmer
Is your identity classified too, AC? ;)
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
The difference is that businesses patriotically keep it proprietary, and only sell it to rich terrorists. This guy is giving poor terrorists a chance. That's a downright Un American Activity.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
No, it's not our responsibility to be editors, but a little help couldn't hurt anything.
/. editors are actually smarter than all of us, and knowingly post the dupes and wacky errors because we will all go on and on posting and talking about it anyway, like a bad Seinfeld episode, while they rack up pageviews because of, and not despite, their lack of effort.
Spoken with the youthful zeal of a subscriber whose never reported an egregious error to daddypants pre-publication, only to be ignored, and see a good thirty percent of the subsequent posts wail on off-topic about the [avoidable] error.
I've reached the conclusion that the
timothy: "Hey, Rob, I was about to release this when that Robot guy send me this; he says 'Architecting' is not a verb. We use it that way in the subject of the release."
cmdr_taco: He's right. It's not. Drives me crazy when I hear people use it that way, too."
timothy: "So... change it....?"
cmdr_taco: "NO! Whaddyou, kidding? They'll go wacky bat-shit with this one. Good for a hundred Grammar-Nazi posts, easily. Then they'll be some poor ex-dot-com-er who'll try to say it *is* a word, and they'll all pile on for another thirty or fifty, at least."
timothy: "Wow! 150 posts, God-knows how many pageviews, just because we *don't* expend any effort to correct something? That's amazing..."
cmdr_taco: "You've a lot to learn about building a Web Community, young padawan..."
..time to classify think geek's internet map!
Terrorist training: "Attack the purple bit..no no the one above the orange spidery bit..
Payback for speaking out against the collective can be a bitch.