Military Stupidity
Published at 11:34 on 13 October 2011
The warning message at the bottom of this page has got to be one of the stupidest things I have read on the web in a very long time.
Really, now: it’s on a publicly-accessible web server. One that hasn’t even bothered to use robots.txt to exclude itself from search engines (I found it via a Google search, while looking for information on shortwave frequencies).
If the Ninth Signal Command is putting sensitive information on that server, they are seriously derelict in their duty to protect such information against unauthorized access. I wasn’t even trying to find sensitive military information. If I could find some without even trying (in the comfort of my own home!), then what about all the spies in the world, who are continually trying to find it, because it’s their job to do that?
If they’re not putting sensitive information there, then why put that warning on their pages?