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DOD Directives and Instructions website restricted?
Hi,
until very recently, the U.S. DOD's directives and instructions could be downloaded by the general public from http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives . Now it says "Only authorized .mil/.gov domains are allowed access to this site." Does anyone know why the access was restricted? Or is there a new URL where I can access the documents? Thanks in advance! Andreas |
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Andreas Parsch wrote in message ...
Hi, until very recently, the U.S. DOD's directives and instructions could be downloaded by the general public from http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives . Now it says "Only authorized .mil/.gov domains are allowed access to this site." Does anyone know why the access was restricted? Or is there a new URL where I can access the documents? Thanks in advance! Andreas Probably for the same reasons that many .mil sites have been restricted--to reduce the availability of sensitive information to those who have ulterior motives, and to make it a bit more difficult for hackers. The Army restricted online access to "Engineer", a professional quarterly bulleting for military engineers, a couple of years ago, but some of the other branch professional bulletins remained available online the last time I checked, so there appears to be little rhyme or reason to the process of determining which .mil sites are restricted, and instead it apparently is determined by local information managers with no set higher policy in evidence. Brooks |
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:06:41 +0200, Andreas Parsch
wrote: Hi, until very recently, the U.S. DOD's directives and instructions could be downloaded by the general public from http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives . Now it says "Only authorized .mil/.gov domains are allowed access to this site." Does anyone know why the access was restricted? Or is there a new URL where I can access the documents? Thanks in advance! Andreas We are involved in a war. That tends to tighten up security. The documents are currently restricted. Al Minyard |
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Alan Minyard wrote:
We are involved in a war. That tends to tighten up security. The documents are currently restricted. Thanks ... so I don't need to look anywhere else :-( Anyway, you're in war since 2 years now, and most .mil sites are as public as they always were ... also, the documents in question included mainly bureaucratic blah-blah - _my_ website has probably more "militarily interesting" information ;-)! Sorry for the little rant. Andreas |
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