On 26/12/2007, Nachman nachman.chayal@gmail.com wrote:
Some might find this interesting:
Over the holidays, I spoke to an individual I know well and was told that US intelligence agencies keep a local copy of Wikipedia available for employees who are isolated from the Internet for security reasons. Apparently, its updated once a year. (Its separate from Intellipedia, which is used for sharing information classified up to TS).
Additionally, it turns out that if intelligence employees have their names published on a site like Wikipedia (even without a connection to their position) they are dismissed or transferred to a public position (i.e . public relations).
The quote was "Hello, we found your name on Wikipedia. You're the new CIA job fair representative."
That would be an extremely stupid policy... so it's probably true.