US Government Strategy To Prevent Leaks Is Leaked

I'm not sure how big of a deal this is. I mean... the entire document is unclassified. It's not even at the "secret" level. Do we know if this is a leak, or if it was just.. published.

The document says "UNCLASSIFIED" in the footer of every page. Has this really been "leaked?"

I worry that this will just encourage employees to wear fake smiles when they're having a rough day, and to conceal any skepticism about the direction of their program out of fear of what their co-workers might tell the psychiatrist. This sounds like a disturbingly unhealthy and counterproductive work environment.

It's not a leak if the government published it: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2011/m11-08.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/...</a>

We apologize for the fault in our secrecy. Those responsible have been sacked.

In fairness, they might not have implemented it yet.

If the disseminating body were to uniquely sort the list of bullet points for every recipient, one could perhaps determine the source of the leak.<p>Strangely, I don't see this mentioned as a suggestion in this document.<p>I suppose this could also work if one were to programmatically insert typos or synonyms to act as unique watermarks.

Does the government throttle document downloads? It seems like if there was a download limit and a mandatory wait between downloads, the whole cable fiasco could never have happened. I mean, you could still leak a few documents here and there if you wanted to, but nothing like the massive leaks that have been happening.

I don't really see the issue here. If an anti-leaking policy loses utility if published, than it's not really effective to begin with.

You have to love the irony.

This leak-protection system will turn all employees into brainwashed minions who will not act in the best interest of humanity, and instead act in the best interest of the person who controls the salary.<p>Good citizens should leak documents to the press when they believe that grave injustices are being committed. Whistle-blowers should be praised when they expose legitimate corruption, they should be praised by individuals higher up in that same organization. Instead of being praised for whistle blowing, they are seen as the source of the evil.<p>After this fails, maybe they will attempt to create loyalty implants for all employees to prevent them from thinking about doing something for the good of humanity over the internal interests of the group.<p>I see absolutely no way that forced loyalty in every way can go wrong.

I knew it. The government is run by idiots.