[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-L] Interesting fact

[Thomas Dalton]

On 26/12/2007, Nachman <nachman.chayal at 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.