Defense Department Blocking Any Website With Wikileaks In The Title?
from the department-of-denial dept
Given the Library of Congress’ silly decision to block Wikileaks’ website, we’ve been informed by a reader at the Defense Department that filters of DoD computers currently seem to be blocking access to any website that has “Wikileaks” in the title. The reader (who acknowledges this policy is pretty freaking stupid) was wondering if we might stop using Wikileaks in post titles so that he can continue to read our coverage — since the filters do allow him to access stories with Wikileaks in the text, rather than the title. First off, we’re not going to do that (if you want, try using an RSS reader or reading the stories via the front page) but more importantly, what is the Defense Department thinking? What a hamfisted attempt to block access to information that’s widely available.
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So....
You have your own DoD “leak” of information related to government practices?
I’m sure you’ll have MiBs knocking on your door in no time….
Re: So....
They will zap your memory with those MIB lights to make you forget everything in the leak.
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yup.
they’ll flashy-thingy you.
Re: So....
Maybe s/he’s in an undisclosed location…
or secret bunker…
or on a lawyer hunting trip (oops, hunting trip with a lawyer)…
or getting a 20,000-hour checkup on his/her mechanical heart (the original one having been removed during a previous administration)…
it’s so hard to remember which story we’re pushing this week.
Because blocking strings with websense is the new hotness. I would be willing to bet the ‘reader’ cant search on those terms either, since that term appears in the URL. It may be hamfisted but it is also routine.
during world cup coverage I couldnt read anything with ‘vuvuzela’ in the title because it contained the substring ‘VUZE’ which is a torrent application.
Re: SEXtant
Guess you’re screwed if you ever need to look up how to use a sextant, too.
Re: Re: SEXtant
Don’t laugh – when my kids were at school they couldn’t look up anything about the county ‘Sussex’, and had to do it from home.
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during world cup coverage I couldnt read anything with ‘vuvuzela’ in the title because it contained the substring ‘VUZE’ which is a torrent application.
that.. sounds.. awesome.
Wikileaks proxy
Someone should create an open proxy which replaces any instance of the word “Wikileaks” with “puppies”. To prevent abuse, it should only allow access to pages with the word “Wikileaks” on them (which will be replaced by “puppies”).
Wikileaks in all fields
We’ve been informed by a reader at the Defense Department that filters of DoD computers currently seem to be blocking access to any website that has “Wikileaks” in the title.
Okay, well, the more I read about the DoD and their methods, the more I realize that they all subscribe to Popular Mechanics and did something like this for Halloween. Click through- Something’s definitely wrong with this pumpkin [LINK]
“close your eyes, it will go away”
Are they dealing with closet monster or reality?
Wikileaks in all fields?
That’s fucking crazy. 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Fucking out.
My Wikilinks criticism site is screwed!
All that money to get Wikilinkssucks.com out the window.
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“All that money to get Wikilinkssucks.com out the window.”
…this is Joe Lieberman, isn’t it. If yes, then two things:
1. Pick a party
2. Try to look less like Emperor Palpatine and sound less like that droopy cartoon dog
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Supreme Chancellor Joseph ‘Palpatine’ Lieberman?
Vuze, sextant et al.
If this keeps up, people in Scunthorpe are really going to struggle.
Re: Vuze, sextant et al.
Our email team can’t research their own MS Exchange servers!
Chief Assange Accuser Has History With CIA and Anti Castro Groups
Oooh. I just found this-
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Link Check on Comment 13. Link Check on Comment 13…
http://my.firedoglake.com/kirkmurphy/2010/12/04/assanges-chief-accuser-has-her-own-history-with-us-funded-anti-castro-groups-one-of-which-has-cia-ties/
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Just found an interesting and somewhat related news article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/07/rape-claims-julian-assange
Let's Put Someone In A
room filled with Secret Documents with a high speed Computer Line to the outside World. What could possibly ever go wrong? I would just like to know who authorized this idea. Well maybe if were lucky it will come out in the Wiki-Leaks Documents.
Re: Let's Put Someone In A
the punk that copied the classified documents (does anyone even still remember his name?) burned them to a CD and walked them out the front door. So the Army released a new policy that classified computers can’t write to external media anymore. The first reasonable response to this whole thing I’ve seen.
/btw, i’m on a DoD computer and have no trouble seeing this page so it’s not blocked all over.
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Hmm. Something tells me that’s been available since Windows XP but I could be wrong.
guess what else?
also means that it probably won’t block the mirrors either
Is Wikileaks down?
I don’t visit WL Everyday, and I’ve only been half following the WL story as it has become such a large internet white-noise generator, so I may be a little behind, forgive me if that is the case, but has Wikileaks been taken offline altogether or has my ISP decided to join the bandwagon…?
Re: Is Wikileaks down?
a bit of both probably. their dns provider won’t list them anymore and your isp is run by morons.
Re: Is Wikileaks down?
Twitter says that Tonight’s topics will be Colonel Gaddafi; Saudi fights with Hezbollah, and US propaganda.
Main site is up. Try a mirror? Wikileaks is currently mirrored on 1005 sites…
Re: Is Wikileaks down?
The main wikileaks.org has been down for several days (DNS issues). Try wikileaks.ch or several other alternate names and mirrors.
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Thanks I read through a couple of other articles and saw ch url. Been reading the cables since then. =)
This is standard stuff in Windows Group Policy settings. Just reading through the hundreds of settings you constantly ask yourself in what conceivable situation would someone want to do X, Y, or Z. But then you remember Microsoft has had a sweet government deal for years.
Obfuscating proxy?
I guess people will have to start setting up obfuscating proxy web servers to conceal the filter words.
"Defense Department Blocking Any Website With Wikileaks In The Title"
First off.. A large portion of the US government doesn’t really have the Constitution in mind anyway. Having said that.. now use general logic. It’s not suprising that US government entities would block or be resentfull of anything relating to WikiLeaks. Personally, I morally support and congratulate(2 thumbs up), Wikileaks for what they are doing. It’s high time that democracy was returned back to the people. I’m already tired of the US secret police, facists’. I praise Wikileaks for its efforts. I’d donate some cash, but unfortunately, I happen to live in the US’s current third world economic system. }:P
Guess they’ll have to stop singing the Star Bangled Banner, as it is no longer applicable.
I do not remember packing up and moving to China … but it sure looks like that is what happened. I expect to see tanks rolling down main street anytime now.
Not only stupid, but dangerous.
Blocking access to any website that has “Wikileaks” in the title
Perhaps the geniuses at the DoD don’t realize that they are aiding terrorists with policies like that. They give our “enemies” a ridiculously simple method of hiding from the DoD, while they cover their ears and say “LALALALA I can’t hear you”
Specific Orders
Above and beyond blocking Wikileaks from DOD computers, members of the US military have been SPECIFICALLY ORDERED not to read or watch anything related to Wikileaks, because the information is still classified, and we are not authorized to view it.
This includes at home in our personal lives. We are prohibited from viewing the Wikileaks website, and also media outlets such as the New York Times, and any others that publish the information.
Frankly I find it infuriating…