After WikiLeaks, U.S. tries to shield classified data

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/10/07/uk-usa-wikileaks-data-idUKTRE7965KZ20111007

(Reuters) - The U.S. government on Friday announced steps to clamp down on who can access classified information, seeking to avert another WikiLeaks-scale breach of military documents and diplomatic cables.

The presidential order requires U.S. agencies to appoint senior people to prevent and detect breaches and creates a task force to monitor potential wrongdoing by government officials, bureaucrats, diplomats or soldiers handling classified data.

That task force, to be headed by the attorney general and director of national intelligence, will set out government-wide policies to prevent data theft and establish binding standards within a year, the White House said, announcing the plans.

Officials familiar with the issue who examined the new anti-leak proposals said most of them were fairly predictable and obvious as a cyber-security response.

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1. K&R

[nc4bo]

2. Yea, hide all the nasty, murderous, treasonous actions of the MIC

must be difficult when a country has so much to hide.

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3. +1

[RKP5637]

4. Much as Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler did, and the rest of them, everything

becomes a state secret and cover ups.

[nc4bo]

5. And that was before the age of the internet, computers and everything else that comes with

with the digital age.

I can't imagine how difficult it must be to protect all that data from whistleblowers and international neighbors.

Those first leaks must have felt like a ray of sunshine would to a vampire.

ETA: I should have just said high technology.

[saras]

6. If they're doing that much that NEEDS to be classified, they're doing the WRONG THINGS

There should really be only a couple of operations going on at any one time that genuinely need to be classified.