-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 09:15 PM 4/4/02 -0500, Faustine wrote:
>And as long as you don't recommend that John call out the Snackycake >Posse on the poor schmoe who sent him the manual thinking he was trying to >help, I honestly couldn't care less. >I don't think anyone has accused JY of intentional disinfo; he is >largely a librarian--a very valuable one with enormous cajones-- not the >author of the docs in question. Right, sure. >Nor did anyone speak against the donor of said document. Well, given how hot he was last month about the idea of someone who seemed to be deliberately feeding him a line of disinformation, I just thought it was important not to throw an accusation like that around which reflects badly on the manual donor, especially when there's a fairly good explanation for the screw-up at hand. I have a hunch the DoD would like nothing better than to see leakees go totally apeshit on leakers as "disinformation spreaders." Do their dirty work, save them the trouble: sounds perfectly in line with Rumsfeld's doctrinal emphasis on "deterrence by denial" to me. Google this phrase with "information warfare" and you can find some pretty interesting papers online. >What we did find worth remarking on is the lethal sloppiness in a doc >written by the largest manufacturer-of-, deployer-of-, and trainer-about- > explosives in the world. Absolutely, these are often erroneous and badly written. Yes, you have every right to expect to see disinformation in them. But in this case, there's nothing lethal about adding sodium cyanide to a urea nitrate bomb-- and in fact would likely boost the lethality by at least an order of magnitude, maybe more. It's not as if this involved giving a precise formula or anything, just some hack content to put out a sloppy generality. Unfortunately, nothing new. ~~Faustine. *** He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPK3Gnvg5Tuca7bfvEQJTXACgs1xBE3CDgN/QgrFe/DKTg6xhyqMAn2di P5Hyd/q5Am7+cOCeGkEjvzL5 =5E7D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
