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It should be a criminal offence to have top secret national information or 3rd party personal information stored in an unencrypted format. Even the much-hated

It should be a criminal offence to have top secret national information or 3rd party personal information stored in an unencrypted format. Even the much-hated Lotus Notes was encrypting databases back in the 1980s. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-NDHistory/ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-NDHistory... It seems like it is going to take some monumental cock-up before governments prosecute people for not encrypting data. Mind you, since no-one lost their job after the monumental cock-up that was 9/11, maybe I'm just naive.

Symmetry 15y ago
I'd be surprised if the information was Top Secret, or even Secret - when I was working at an FFRDC we could but that on any computer that would ever be attached to the internet. I'm guessing it was just FOUO (For Official Use Only).
- mvanveen 15y ago
  Telemetry and commands for spacecraft at NASA fall under ITAR compliance (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_Regulations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_R...). Basically, this means that command and telemetry information must be safeguarded against access attempts by a foreign national. There are NASA employees who aren't US citizens that are not permitted to have access to this sort of information without explicit permission.
  - mturmon 15y ago
    100% correct. And, anyone who works with space technology is forced to sit through briefings about all the bad things, including civil and criminal prosecution to individuals, and civil penalties to institutions, that may happen if you violate ITAR laws.
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- hindsightbias 15y ago
  The STS commands documentation was marked FOUO in the 90's. NASA may have gone all ITAR since then, but I'd bet there are a lot of ISS docs and PDFs from that era that don't say anything about ITAR.

Symmetry 15y ago

I'd be surprised if the information was Top Secret, or even Secret - when I was working at an FFRDC we could but that on any computer that would ever be attached to the internet. I'm guessing it was just FOUO (For Official Use Only).

mvanveen 15y ago
Telemetry and commands for spacecraft at NASA fall under ITAR compliance (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_Regulations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_R...). Basically, this means that command and telemetry information must be safeguarded against access attempts by a foreign national. There are NASA employees who aren't US citizens that are not permitted to have access to this sort of information without explicit permission.
- mturmon 15y ago
  100% correct. And, anyone who works with space technology is forced to sit through briefings about all the bad things, including civil and criminal prosecution to individuals, and civil penalties to institutions, that may happen if you violate ITAR laws.
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hindsightbias 15y ago
The STS commands documentation was marked FOUO in the 90's. NASA may have gone all ITAR since then, but I'd bet there are a lot of ISS docs and PDFs from that era that don't say anything about ITAR.