Larry J said:

>Those of us who work in the industry have to be mindful of Kim Keller's
>experience. He was a pad rat for the Shuttle and used to post on the MSNBC
>web site regularily. He also had a small web site of his own that he posted
>Shuttle pictures. For that, he was fired because his employer said he was
>revealing too much information.

This really pisses me off!! I hope it was a Dan Goldin flunky that caused Kim to get sacked. Dan Goldin flunky or not it was extremely unjust. I've studied the Space Shuttle for most of my professional life and found Kim's website to be extremely interesting. I pointed it out to my co-workers and everyone agreed that Kim's site was both informative and useful to people in the trade. Kim is (or was) a space fanatic. To have done this to him is so utterly rotten..... (steam is coming out of my ears).

Larry J also said:

>My job exposes me to a fair amount of classified information...... I have to be
>careful about what I write or say because it's easy to forget what is and what
>isn't sensitive. A lot of the stuff I work with is unclassified but For Official Use
>Only (FOUO), meaning I can't discuss it here, either. I'm not saying this to
>sound like something I'm not, just that there are things I can't or better not
>discuss lest I lose my clearance, my job, and perhaps more. Better to be
>circumspect than fired.

A problem with NASA is the sensitive stuff often times isn't marked sensitive. They just hand you something, assume you won't talk about it and punish you if you do. Even worse, there's stuff that was classified 30 years, declassified and then redeclared sensitive. Some of the formerly open shelves in the library are now locked and one is not supposed to browse them. This is absolutely nuts. The documents in question have been out in the open for over 20 years. Long ago I had a secret clearance but now I'm out of that game and glad.

Gary