Somehow it is important... Streisand effect writ large. Unless somehow it was just a mixup, or a deliberate attempt to put a false target forward.
Fred
This is seeming a little silly; it's just a big communications station. It's got huge radio towers and is very visible on the skyline for a distance. It's got a civilian radio/TV tower colocated with it.
I can't see what would be sensitive in the article..
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
Typical. They were not willing to tell our legal counsel why or what was classified; she, of course, has no French security clearance; now it is spread all over an administrators noticeboard, and restored.
They weren't wrong but neither is our legal counsel or the users; so "fell between the cracks." Hopefully the matter was not too important; I'm sure we have enough money to pay for relocating the facility to a secure location.
Fred
This is where the discussion is happening on-wiki:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Bulletin_des_administrateurs#Sec...
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net
wrote:
Hard to know what was involved from the information you provide. The
problem is there is classified information that amounts to nothing and then there is classified information release of which can cause serious damage. Defiance will eventually result in serious trouble. Not that we should knuckle under to nonsense.
Fred
Hi there, I guess you might be interested to hear that Direction Centrale du
Renseignement Intérieur (Central Directorate of Interior
Intelligence,
DCRI), a French intelligence agency that reports directly to the
Ministry of the Interior, has apparently forced a French Wikipedia administrator to delete an article that in their opinionâas I understand itârevelead classified information deemed very harmful
to
the French national defence ("compromission du secret de la
Défense nationale").
Interestingly, they contacted the WMF legal team with a request to
remove (delete? suppress?) this article a couple of weeks before
that,
but were refused after failing to provide further information on
why the article should be removed (in the words of a Foundation legal counsel).
Undounted by that, they approached the said administrator â who
operates under his real name, so I guess it was pretty easy to track him â and asked him to delete this article, a request which he obliged. (The article has since been restored by a different
administrator). As far as I understand, the version of the article
they wanted to have deleted was
https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=81104004.
I guess that when an intelligence agency asks their citizen to
remove information from Wikipedia citing the penal code (article 413-11 of the French penal code in this case), it is something worth sharing
(no
harm intended).
Further reading in English:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=91705235
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