[Infowarrior] - Let's Legislate the Streissand Effect!

[Richard Forno]

Okay - first off, King is an absolute doofus on anything having to do  
with security, but if anyone thinks that they can legislate away the  
distribution or flow of information on the Internet, they have been  
living in a cave for the past 20 years.  Oh, wait -- consider the  
source.  Nevermind   *facepalm*    --rf


Lawmakers Want to Bar Sites From Posting Sensitive Government Docs
	• By Kim Zetter
	• December 10, 2009
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/tsa-leak-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Blog+-+27B+Stroke+6+%28Threat+Level%29%29

Three Republican lawmakers have asked the Department of Homeland  
Security what can be done to bar or criminally penalize whistleblower  
sites that reposted a sensitive airport-screening manual that was  
published on the internet by a government worker.

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In their letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (.pdf)  
on Wednesday, Reps. Peter T. King (R - New York), Charles Dent (R -  
Pennsylvania) and Gus Bilirakis (R - Florida) asked, “How has the  
Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security  
Administration addressed the repeated reposting of this security  
manual to other websites, and what legal action, if any, can be taken  
to compel its removal?”