Here are the four documents I downloaded last month that have been, ah, disappeared from the tsa.gov site: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/tsa.security.docs.121402.tar.gz Where they used to live: http://www.tsa.gov/public/theme_home6.jsp My column: http://news.com.com/2010-1028-978636.html Someone may want to call up the Transportation Security Administration and ask why they're gone. They don't appear to be eager to talk to reporters, though, except to reassure Reuters (http://www.politechbot.com/p-04278.html) that: "We think it's safe. From our standpoint it's very workable and secure." Hmm. Then why were the files deleted? -Declan --- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978981.html?tag=fd_top Federal agency pulls Web documents By Lisa M. Bowman January 2, 2003, 3:34 PM PT The Transportation Security Administration has quietly removed four password-protected documents about airport security from its Web site after reporters raised questions about locking up government data. In a column last week, CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh speculated on whether he would be violating the contentious Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) if he viewed downloaded documents from the TSA's Web site after obtaining the password in an unauthorized manner. At the time, anyone could download the encrypted documents, but a password was required to open and read them. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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