Originally posted by undo
Question #1: Can I go to Area 51, to the top secret areas, and look around, take photos, interview people, and bring it back to my own home and post
the info I accumulated there, including the photos, for everyone to see?
No and neither can anybody who works there.
Originally posted by undo
If not, why not?
National Security and you don’t have a need to know.
Translation: Just because we’re paranoid doesn’t mean they (the enemy) are not out to get us.
Originally posted by undo
Question #2: Why is a secret clearance required to work on computers at NASA?
It isn’t necessarily. Not all NASA jobs require a security clearance because not all NASA jobs require access to Classified Nation Security
Information (CNSI) however (as with all federal jobs) as a minimum a background check is required. See the following links for more information…
NASA Office of Security Program and Protection
NASA Information Assurance Program (IA)
NASA Jobs
Exercise: Search the job listings. If a security clearance is required it will say so in the job description.
Originally posted by undo
Isn't it public information?
The overwhelming majority is like planetary data (photographs etc.) but you wouldn’t want a terrorist to know how to crash the Space Shuttle into
your house would you?
Originally posted by undo If not, why not?
National Security and you don’t have a need to know.
Translation: Just because we’re paranoid doesn’t mean they (the enemy) are not out to get us!
Originally posted by undo
Question #3: Why are there several thousand missing reels of movie footage from the Apollo space program?
Good question. Probably because NASA is a huge organization and perhaps somebody wasn’t doing their job and lost track of it when it got loaned
out, moved or destroyed.
Translation: Sh_t happens.
Originally posted by undo
If it's all so secret / top secret, how come someone was allowed to run off with them without oversight?
It’s not a secret, it was simulcast on live TV. I think I read somewhere the band Pink Floyd had been given some of the film to use in a music
video (for the album “The Dark Side of the Moon” go figure) and they forgot to return it.
Originally posted by undo
And if its not so all top secret, then why can't we go to NASA and see their top secret/secret computers?
Because that’s an oxymoron.
Originally posted by undo
Question #4: Why is a guy from britain spending half his life in prison for infiltrating NASA computers?
Because he’s an idiot and now he’s being made an example of just like Paris Hilton is.
Translation: If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime!
Originally posted by undoI thought it wasn't top secret what they did there?[ And if it is top secret what they did/do there, what
makes you think they'd leave images of sensitive information, untouched?
Classified computer systems storing classified information are NEVER connected to the Internet. Like I said, the guy’s an idiot.
Originally posted by undo
Question #5: Who are you and why are you on our thread?
My name is Tom and I am here to
DENY IGNORANCE!
Translation: ATS is addicting and I’m wasting my time.
