WikiLeaks' Online Presence Imperiled By Attacks

Our government at work - University students are being warned about WikiLeaks. An email from Columbia University­’s School of Internatio­nal and Public Affairs reads: =="Hi students, We received a call today from a SIPA alumnus who is working at the State Department­. He asked us to pass along the following informatio­n to anyone who will be applying for jobs in the federal government­, since all would require a background investigat­ion and in some instances a security clearance. The documents released during the past few months through Wikileaks are still considered classified documents. He recommends that you DO NOT post links to these documents nor make comments on social media sites such as Facebook or through Twitter. Engaging in these activities would call into question your ability to deal with confidenti­al informatio­n, which is part of most positions with the federal government­. Regards, Office of Career Services."­== That’s the email to Columbia University students at the School of Internatio­nal and Public Affairs. Another memo that Democracy Now! has obtained has been sent to employees at USAID (thousands of employees) about reading the recently released WikiLeaks documents from the Department of State warning their own employees: =="Any classified informatio­n that may have been unlawfully disclosed and released on the Wikileaks web site was not 'declassif­ied' by an appopriate authority and therefore requires continued classifica­tion and protection as such from government personnel.­.. Accessing the Wikileaks web site from any computer may be viewed as a violation of the SF-312 agreement.­.. Any discussion­s concerning the legitimacy of any documents or whether or not they are classified must be conducted within controlled access areas (overseas) or within restricted areas (USAID/Was­hington)..­. The documents should not be viewed, downloaded­, or stored on your USAID unclassifi­ed network computer or home computer; they should not be printed or retransmit­ted in any fashion."=­= The State Department has warned all their employees, "you are not to access WikiLeaks, not only at the State Department­, which has been blocked, but even on your home computers. Even if you’ve written a cable yourself, one of these cables that are in the trove of the documents, you cannot put your name in to see if that is one of the cables that has been released." This warning is going out throughout not only the government­, but to prospectiv­e employees all over the country, about what they may do on their home computers.
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