IP: Rising Fears That What We Do Know Can Hurt Us

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 13:14:52 -0500
> Subject:  GOOD READ - Rising Fears That What We Do Know Can Hurt Us
> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> A very good read, if not on a very disturbing topic and chain of events.
>
> rick
> infowarrior.org
>
>
>
> Rising Fears That What We Do Know Can Hurt Us
>
> Information: The government is pulling back on previously shared data to
> keep it from aiding terrorists.
>
>  By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Times Staff Writer
>
> WASHINGTON -- The document seemed innocuous enough: a survey of government
> data on reservoirs and dams on CD-ROM. But then came last month's federal
> directive to U.S. libraries: "Destroy the report."
>
> So a Syracuse University library clerk broke the disc into pieces, saving a
> single shard to prove that the deed was done.
>
> The unusual order from the Government Printing Office reflects one of the
> hidden casualties of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks: the public's shrinking
> access to information that many once took for granted.
>
> <SNIP>
>
> Full story at:
> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-111801inform.story


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