NY Times Exposed

[megiloth]

Just when you thought the New York Times has only recently let out vital secrets...here are a couple lesser known and forgotten examples...

Comments

[stupiddumbpanda]

I love the second one, but the big red text explanation bugs me.

[megiloth]

I realize such boldness is necessary to exaggerate the point, but it is a tad overbearing.

[lafinjack]

[megiloth]

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Stupid fancy icon selection thingy.

[lafinjack]

Re: Stupid fancy icon selection thingy.

[megiloth]

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[hippopotassium]

While I disagree, I had to lol at "Benedict Lichtblau".

[megiloth]

Benedict anything...always funny

[temujin9]

Those rotten bastards, posting info anybody with the same legal status as a reporter (ie - US citizen) could have gotten, publicly.

Microsoft and countless other software companies have proven that security by obscurity works just great. Why not extend that to American national security? All it would take would be scuttling the First Amendment; a small price to pay, for true safety.

Here's American Gladiator. Here's fifty channels of it. Go back to bed, America. - Bill Hicks

[megiloth]

Y'know, we could be really super safe if all our national security measures were made known to the general public and terrorist organizations abroad. Do we think we're any better than them? If it's good enough for the top levels of government to know, the public at large should be made aware of it.

Power to the people!

[temujin9]

The problems with our national security measures are obvious to anybody who cares to do as much investigation as the reporters did. Which excludes the vast majority of Americans . . . but no terrorists organizations that I can think of.

Case in point: the undocumented vulnerability that a plane full of fuel without proper security measures posed, several years back.

Let me repeat myself, lest I be misunderstood: security by obscurity does not work. It only prevents the vulnerable from knowing their plight, and thus having any hope of changing it.

[megiloth]

I suppose it all depends on what group you consider vulnerable. If it the American people, what plight are they facing if we keep tabs on terrorist funds and communications. If it is the terrorists, then what do you care aboot their plight?

[readwriteblue]

Excellent post especially since Monday was Patriots' Day.
But it has always been this way. If I may add three Quotes,

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William Tecumseh Sherman

[megiloth]

I never heard of Patriot's Day until now...probably since it's a Massachusetts thing, which I discovered from my pal Wikipedia. However, I always celebrate Patriot's Day in my own way by quaffing down a fine Samuel Adams Boston Lager :)