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US Military Leaks its Secrets Online

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-out-the-cia-myspace-page dept.

athloi writes "Detailed schematics of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq, geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad and plans for a new fuel farm at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan are among the items accidentally left online by government agencies and contractors."

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  1. Re:First Post! by afaik_ianal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And don't forget to troll with, "There is nothing to see here, move along."

    The sad thing is, I actually think I'm funny.

  2. Re:How to improve your security... by NeverVotedBush · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How I wish I had mod points - you would get either "Funny" or "Insightful" -- not sure which.

  3. Hardly news... by Simulant · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Much ado about nothing if you RTFA.

    It's material so sensitive that officials refused to release the documents when asked. As if that means anything. If you want to see government secrets online, go to http://www.cryptome.org/ Anyone else notice that the threat level is ramping up right before an election year? It's as if the terrorists WANT to keep the Republicans in office. Funny how that works.
  4. Please stop with the propaganda words by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know the government and the lapdog controlled media are good at brainwashing the mouth breathing herds, but would you please just stop this on slashdot, and man up a little in the brain department and just *stop* using that damn word "detainee". It's intellectually insulting and you should be embarrassed to repeat it.

        They are prisoners. Grabbed and snatched at gunpoint, threatened with immediate death if they don't comply, same as in any other war. Being detained implies a short duration in a casual event then you are free to go about your business, something the current usage contradicts immensely, they just psychologically wargamed it and found it sounded less severe for PR purposes to help to "sell" the current fiasco. It also helped them to ignore the Geneva convention rules.

    Thanks, nothing personal, but being part of the brave new world order crowd's newspeak push from the current crop of blood profiteers betrays our overall commitment I think most people here at slashdot have to overall freedom/honesty issues. And it matters not if you are pro Iraq war or not, just be aware that words have meaning and repeated enough they become part of the collective consciousness, and the use of that word is *pure freaking evil*. It legitimizes and minimizes some pretty heinous things. Don't let the blood profiteers win in other words, resist it, and starting with something as simple as word usage can be of immense help.