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At 08:30 AM 9/29/98 -0400, John Young wrote:
>Now that the terrified US Army has axed its Web sites, and 
>NSA and several other mil sites seem inaccessible and
>"temporarily unavailable" this morning, could this portend
>a dual-use of the Internet, a closed one for porkbarrell mil and
>secret gov sweethearts and a sappy infotainment one for civilians 
>to gameboy infofoolery?

Well, for some months now they've password protected some of the more
delicate stuff (e.g., "lessons learned", some of the field manuals).  And
they have been rejecting non .mil addresses too.

Certainly we can expect them to eventually get a clue and 
think about what's out there.  Mostly they have.  (Of course it was within
the last year that a .mil was exporting PGP!) The army's over-reaction
is quaint but essentially reasonable --the W3 pages are just PR,
and they're real edgy these days after they tried to scalp Osama
with a tomohawk.

[digression: I wonder when Osama will have his own web page with matching
funds for the head of the Great Satan, and whether there would
be a shootout on the net, e.g., the DNS records being changed, a
phone call to their ISP]

As far as the NSA's online personnel records, I bet they're still worried
about the CIA shootout down the street a few years back.

There's still plenty of names, phones, email addresses in the 
.gov domain, with building locations, etc.  But Jim Bell is
locked up so they're not so uptight.


>That would be a tri-power-gov implementation of dual-use 
>terror-scare to hide perkbellied privileges of natsec obsession.

They keep trying different passwords to the constitution.
Its a dictionary attack: "pedophile", "droogs", "terrorist", "WMD", etc.

--Ceci n'est-ce pas un Toto

These are quotes from a mil news group where this is being 
discussed.

"Thing is, many of the Army's sites offered a wealth of
information, unclassified, and readily available in hardcopy,
to anybody who wants it.

To ease distribution and save millions in costs of distributing
this material around the world, the Web cannot be beat,
as even Hamre's directive emphasized for contracting and 
purchasing defense goods and educating its personnel.

An West Point bozo fucked up royally by pissing an arc to show Hamre
the combat guys know how to blow shit away big time -- the turkey
was named in some news reports, a LtGen of Info Services -- and revelaed
his prejudice toward loathsome civvy control and wily-hackered the 
whole damn system, "stupid jerk, fucking asshole, eat shit, fuck you,"
as my sqawk box mocks.

Hamre will get hammered for overreacting, too, he's been whining
about cyber threats for months now, when it's clear he doesn't
know shit about such systems, like most of the wrinkled fucks running
the natsec operation. They won't listen to the youngsters under
their command, they just want to destroy something to prove their
hardware prowess, being unable to wave their shriveled dicks now
that they'll get cashiered for being inappropriately related to
underlings.

It will cost the military millions if not billions to return to a closed 
information system. And all those folks who were selling handy
off the shelf stuff for ballooning mil siles aint gonna keep quiet -- 
unless they get sweetheart deals for 10 times cost for secret shit that
aint worth shit to anybody except the lard asses always screaming
for more protection for the Amercian people."