Fiber-Optic Map: A Classified Dissertation? 299
An anonymous reader writes "So you spent all that time researching, compiling and formatting your dissertation ... now what if it became classified information? That's exactly what may end up happening to Sean Gorman's dissertation.
He's compiled a detailed map of American companies and the networks that bind it all together, right down to the very last fibre connection.
The government wants it classified in the interest of national security. Large financial institutions want it classified/destroyed in the interest of economic security. But terrorists would love for this to be published ... it would make their job so much easier." If Gorman can map the fiber network though, doesn't that mean someone else could do the same? Update: 07/09 13:06 GMT by T : Sorry, I blinked past the story as posted yesterday.
Whoops (Score:4, Funny)
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Once it's posted to /., the dupes will ensure it never goes away!
You can read more about this... (Score:5, Funny)
You can read more about this here [slashdot.org].
Classified? (Score:2, Funny)
Only die-hard Slashdot readers would like to see such a technology because it would make our lives much easier.
Something's wrong here... (Score:-1, Funny)
How can this be? Surely everyone knows that posting dupes is Taco's territory.
Either one of three things is happening here:
1. Timothy's looking to replace Taco with in a Macbeth style takeover;
2. Time is moving backwards and Slashdot's been flooded with tachyons (B definitely came before A in this case); or
3. Timothy's a dupe of Taco.
Re:not suprising (Score:-1, Funny)
Re:Classified dissertations.. (Score:4, Funny)
Missing Links (Score:2, Funny)
Backhoes == Terroist (Score:2, Funny)
I think that his thesis should be published and given to all the fine backhoe operators out there who thought that "that cable didn't look it was being used".
Just your average farmer.
incognito (Score:5, Funny)
Is your identity classified too, AC? ;)
Re:Does he have to keep anything secret? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Subscribers Supposed to Catch? (Score:5, Funny)
Spoken with the youthful zeal of a subscriber whose never reported an egregious error to daddypants pre-publication, only to be ignored, and see a good thirty percent of the subsequent posts wail on off-topic about the [avoidable] error.
I've reached the conclusion that the
timothy: "Hey, Rob, I was about to release this when that Robot guy send me this; he says 'Architecting' is not a verb. We use it that way in the subject of the release."
cmdr_taco: He's right. It's not. Drives me crazy when I hear people use it that way, too."
timothy: "So... change it....?"
cmdr_taco: "NO! Whaddyou, kidding? They'll go wacky bat-shit with this one. Good for a hundred Grammar-Nazi posts, easily. Then they'll be some poor ex-dot-com-er who'll try to say it *is* a word, and they'll all pile on for another thirty or fifty, at least."
timothy: "Wow! 150 posts, God-knows how many pageviews, just because we *don't* expend any effort to correct something? That's amazing..."
cmdr_taco: "You've a lot to learn about building a Web Community, young padawan..."
Time to classify thinkgeek! (Score:4, Funny)
Terrorist training: "Attack the purple bit..no no the one above the orange spidery bit..
Re:not suprising (Score:3, Funny)