Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 11:57:31 -0000
From: jwneastro <jwne@temple.edu>
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Subject: [NetGold] TERRORISM: Study Examines Government Web Sites for
Terror
UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT: FEDERAL: WEBSITES :
TERRORISM:
Study Examines Government Web Sites for Terror
11:50 PM PDT, May 9, 2004
Study Examines Government Web Sites for Terror
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer
Los Angeles Times AP
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/
sns-ap-web-sites-terrorism,1,7963666.story?
coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines>
A shorter URL for the link above:
WASHINGTON — The overwhelming majority of federal
Web sites that reveal information about airports, power plants,
military bases and other attractive terrorist targets need not be
censored because similar or better information is easily available
elsewhere, a taxpayer-financed study found.
The Rand Corp. identified only four Web pages that might merit
the restrictions imposed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
It urged government officials to consider reopening public access
to about three dozen Web pages that were withdrawn from the
Internet in the name of homeland security.
"It's a good time to take a closer look at the choices that they
made at the time," said John Baker, principal author of the study
that was funded by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency,
the government's intelligence mapping agency.
Advocates of open government said the report shows the Bush
administration acted rashly after the suicide attacks when it
scrubbed numerous government Web sites.
"It was a gigantic mistake, and I hope the study brings some
rationality back to this policy," said Steven Aftergood, director
of the Federation of American Scientists' project on government
secrecy. "Up to now, decisions have been made on a
knee-jerk basis."
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The full article may be read at the URL above.
The complete Rand Report in an Adobe Acrobat .pdf format may
be viewed at no cost at this web URL.
Mapping the Risks:
Assessing the Homeland Security Implications of Publicly
Available Geospatial Information
John C. Baker, Beth E. Lachman, David R. Frelinger,
Kevin M. O'Connell, Alex Hou, Michael S. Tseng,
David Orletsky, Charles Yost
$24.00 (paperback, 232 pp.)
ISBN: 0-8330-3547-9
MG-142-NGA, © 2004
http://www.rand.org/publications/MG/MG142/
>From the above page one finds links to this document that
contains these contents.
Contents
Chapter One:
Introduction
Chapter Two:
What Are the Attackers' Key Information Needs?
Chapter Three:
What Publicly Available Geospatial Information Is
Significant to Potential Attackers' Needs?
Chapter Four:
An Analytical Framework for Assessing the Homeland Security
Implications of Publicly Accessible Geospatial Information
Chapter Five:
Key Findings and Recommendations
Appendix:
1. Federal Agencies Examined
2. Federal Geospatial Data Sources Identified
3. Detailed Examples of Geospatial Information Analyses
4. Overview of Critical U.S. Sites: Critical Infrastructure and
Other Key Homeland Locations
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@astro.temple.edu
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