On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Jon
<scream(a)nonvocalscream.com> wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
Why Wikipedia and Intellipedia (CIA's version
of Wikipedia) can add Value
for Information Users
http://www.birdsonginfo.com/blog/2009/05/in-addition-to-analysis-we-need-pe…
Fred Bauder
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Clarification...
The Intellipedia does not belong to the CIA, but all IC community users,
that use it. It is actually managed by the ODNI. Additionally, two of
the three wiki s are classified. The third is SBU, which is not a
classification. Users must still be cleared for such use however. Note
that access to classified material is not permitted remotely on the
other two Wiki's.
(according to publicly available sources.)
Best,
Jon
From the presentation at last years LISA conference, the three wikis
are integrated, with a classification level access control along the
lines of WP access controls but much more robust, as the security
classifications business is fairly rigidly controlled...
You can look down from a higher classification level and have links to
and across lower classification level info.
Funny snippet - one of their major internal organizational issues is
that a lot of stuff in Wikipedia on some subjects is still formally
highly classified, even if well known in public. They had cases where
people reported "You can't say that! Classify it to Top Secret
immediately!", and the response was "We imported that article straight
from Wikipedia, that's what the public sees out there already...".
Which was in some cases not good enough, and they had to remove things
and link out to us (though they indicated they were now generally
winning those fights).
I don't believe they are integrated. The publically available
descriptions of the three networks state they do not co-mingle. They
might link to one another, but I think integration might be pushing it.
I'll research any available press releases and what not from the DoD,
but I do I've derailed the conversation topic from it's original intent,
and for that, I apologize. :)
Jon