[ISN] Secrecy News -- 09/17/02

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    Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:17:33 -0400
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    Subject: Secrecy News -- 09/17/02
    
    SECRECY NEWS
    from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
    Volume 2002, Issue No. 90
    September 17, 2002
    
    
    **	SATELLITE RECONNAISSANCE OF IRAQ
    **	TRANSPARENCY IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE
    **	DETAILS EMERGE ON NOVEMBER 17 GROUP
    **	NEW, IMPROVED MOSSAD RECRUITING AD
    **	SECRECY IN THE NEWS
    
    
    [...]
    
    
    NEW, IMPROVED MOSSAD RECRUITING AD
    
    The Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence organization, has produced a
    snazzy new recruiting ad that was published on the web last week:
    
         http://www.mohr.gov.il/intro_flash.html
    
    The "flash" presentation culminates in an application form for would-be
    Mossad operatives to fill in and transmit.
    
    But the security of the site, or rather the lack of any security, was
    promptly mocked in the Israeli press.  "Any child could break into the
    Mossad's internet site," wrote Dror Globerman and Eytan Rabin in the
    Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on September 13.  Subsequently, the
    application form was modified to permit encrypted transmission.
    
    
    [...]
    
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