Blackout: DOD Blocks All Articles About NSA Leaks From 'Millions' of Computers

[CaseyJones]

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/06/28/blackout-defense-department-blocks-all-articles-about-nsa-leaks-from-millions-of-computers


The Department of Defense is blocking online access to news reports about classified National Security Agency documents made public by Edward Snowden. The blackout affects all of the department's computers and is part of a department-wide directive.

"Any website that runs information that the Department of Defense still considers classified" is affected, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Damien Pickart told U.S. News in a phone interview.

According to Pickart, news websites that re-report information first published by The Guardian or other primary sources are also affected.

[tod evans]

Makes me wonder what's being "blocked" on regular computers....

[Nobexliberty]

This site is the first place they look for I can guarantee you.

[Occam's Banana]

Hut, hut, hut!

[CaseyJones]

bump

[Sola_Fide]

The information controllers are in overdrive mode.

[Lafayette]

Isn't this the equivalent of closing your eyes, sticking your fingers in your ears and going "la la la la la"? Well it is a government response to a perceived problem, i don't know what i expected.

[jbauer]

So it's official it's now 1984

[tangent4ronpaul]

It's odd that it's just the DoD. When Wikileaks leaked a bunch of Mannings stuff the blackout was government wide and gvmt workers were told they could be arrested for accessing the stuff, even from home.

-t

[69360]

So? It's to protect the soldiers. If they accidentally read the leaked material the could be court martialed. I see no problem here.