[Wikimedia-l] French intelligency agency forces removal of a Wikipedia article

[Nathan]

In other words, the problem was people were uploading Wikipedia
articles which the government thought included classified information?
And because the pages were already public uploaders assumed they were
unclassified, but because the government is nuts, they were wrong.

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:06 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Romaine Wiki <romaine_wiki at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 12:31:29, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> > I can't see what would be sensitive in the article..
>>
>> I think that the existence of the article is considered too sensitive for
>> them, not realizing that all information is already elsewhere on the
>> internet.
>
>
> A couple of years ago, the guy in charge of the CIA's internal MediaWiki
> (the Intelligence Wiki, which they added classification levels etc) did a
> talk at ... Usenix?  LISA?  One of their conferences.
>
> He was talking about challenges.  The code certification was interesting.
>  The Wiki project getting in trouble for having (US classified) Secret, Top
> Secret, or Top Secret SCI (Secure Compartmented Information) in the
> "Open-unclassified" category *due to Wikipedia uploads/imports* was
> apparently a major ongoing pain point for the whole organization.
>
> Fortunately not one that was being exposed to the public, other than his
> talk...
>
>
> --
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
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