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re: Document links

Tom Brosz — 9/30/2005 4:51:14 PM (archived)

Your idea that the media were restricted by the source from reprinting the document is certainly possible, although I can't imagine handing over such a document and allowing the media to pick and choose what they would print being much different from allowing full access. Remember, I'm going by a media source that said they were handed the whole thing from an anonymous source.

To speculate a bit further along the lines of your idea, the anonymous source may have feared, or even known, that his copy was "tagged," a not-uncommon practice in security-intensive businesses. Each copy of the document is altered in some insignificant way (adding a sentence, changing a word order, something like that) that identifies that copy exclusively. An image of the document on the web would immediately flag the source.

This is done with things like business plans or confidential technical reports. I have no idea why a hurricane study would go that route, but maybe the source was paranoid.

I know damn well bloggers have an agenda. Few of them hide it. I take that into account, but I don't automatically assume that every news story or document they point out is automatically poisoned by that. What's unfortunate is the mainstream media continuing to try to pretent they DON'T have an agenda.

As for alcaray's comment, a news site that can't deal with the bandwidth generated by that size document isn't trying. A 500-page PDF document in image format (no searchable text) is only about 20 MB. Such a document, digitized, is about 7 MB (example: the 9/11 Commission Report).

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This will be interesting - DL - 9/27/2005 2:48:16 PM
- Nailing Brown on Hurricane "Pam" - Mary Anne - 9/29/2005 2:07:11 AM
  - re: Hurricane "Pam" - Tom Brosz - 9/29/2005 7:01:18 AM
    - re: Hurricane "Yeti" - DL - 9/29/2005 2:18:52 PM
      - Document links - Tom Brosz - 9/29/2005 10:20:51 PM
        
        I would not casually volunteer to store and serve for a 400 page doc. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/30/2005 4:30:03 PM
        
        re: Document links - DL - 9/30/2005 1:19:51 PM
        
        re: Document links - Tom Brosz - 9/30/2005 4:51:14 PM
    - The press release contained part of the action plan, which I quoted. - Mary Anne - 9/29/2005 1:31:23 PM
      - re: The press release - Tom Brosz - 9/29/2005 10:13:17 PM
        
        The jokes just keep on coming - Tony - 9/30/2005 1:26:12 PM
        
        Rain Man talking about how good a driver he is. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/30/2005 4:25:30 PM
- Well lets just see if those weasels on the committee are able to pin anything on the guy. - Scott Evil - 9/27/2005 8:32:59 PM
- Just for the exercise: - Tom Brosz - 9/27/2005 6:37:00 PM
  - And BTW - DL - 9/27/2005 7:52:51 PM
    - re: And BTW - Tom Brosz - 9/27/2005 8:36:55 PM
      - give me the link, and are you going to respond to the rest of the post? - DL - 9/27/2005 8:55:36 PM
        
        It was the first post in this thread. - Tom Brosz - 9/27/2005 9:23:22 PM
        
        Thanks, and I don't care what the 'meme' is- I'm asking YOU - DL - 9/27/2005 9:41:53 PM
        
        And I find I need to repost this more often than I should have to... - Tom Brosz - 9/27/2005 10:09:43 PM
        
        Changing the subject, post that in a new thread and I'll go there with you - DL - 9/27/2005 10:57:10 PM
        
        I'm asking - Tom Brosz - 9/27/2005 9:58:12 PM
        
        If you can't give me the basic respect of not putting words in my mouth- go to flame. - DL - 9/27/2005 11:00:10 PM
        
        spontaneous generation - Tom Brosz - 9/28/2005 2:36:30 AM
        
        You basically concede the point in the first paragraph - DL - 9/28/2005 3:54:30 AM
        
        re: You basically concede the point in the first paragraph - Tom Brosz - 9/28/2005 4:31:07 AM
        
        There is no point in this - DL - 9/28/2005 2:17:51 PM
  - So you think people just 'materialized', like spontaneous generation? Or just 'stopped in' on the way to the superdome and decided they loved the view? - DL - 9/27/2005 7:30:40 PM
    - Show me the announcement, with a date. - Tom Brosz - 9/27/2005 8:34:17 PM
      - re: time and date and pigs - DL - 9/27/2005 8:51:52 PM
        
        another news story that existed before news stories existed about an evacuation site that wasn't an evacuation site, and the trauma going on there that was never reported before the 1st - DL - 9/27/2005 9:22:30 PM
- Forget the news reports - SteveS - 9/27/2005 6:00:53 PM
  - Yes, I am sure he was fired for personal hygene. - DL - 9/27/2005 7:31:47 PM
    - Well, spell it out - SteveS - 9/27/2005 8:21:04 PM
      - You should make that demand of the guy that fired him. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/27/2005 8:38:03 PM
  - You must only be listening to the Democrat's questioning... - alcaray - 9/27/2005 7:19:33 PM
    - What scorecard? - SteveS - 9/27/2005 8:17:41 PM
      - more inventions from the Right: "but if enough of the right wing ape it and repeat it enough" - DL - 9/27/2005 9:00:10 PM
        
        Well, pardon me... - SteveS - 9/27/2005 10:15:33 PM
        
        Oh, now YOU are going to tell me what I 'really' meant. - DL - 9/27/2005 11:04:26 PM
        
        And don't even think about using the word "niggardly" - alcaray - 9/28/2005 2:57:05 PM
        
        Oh, don't worry. Steve will know what You Really Meant, regardless of what you write. He's the final authority on truth (n/t) - DL - 9/28/2005 3:01:16 PM
        
        I'll believe what I want - SteveS - 9/28/2005 12:24:39 AM
        
        If you had any honesty or integrity, you would appologize - DL - 9/28/2005 12:36:17 AM
        
        Being a partisan hack means never having to say you're sorry (n/t) - R.L. - 9/28/2005 7:21:53 AM
        
        Oh man, I did read it! Just did not recognize it from Scott's characterization. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/27/2005 9:55:42 PM
        
        re: I can't even follow this thread...Don't bring me into it... (n/t) - Scott Evil - 9/28/2005 9:42:54 PM
        
        Oh, man, I am sorry about the goof! (n/t) - alcaray - 9/29/2005 7:27:22 PM
      - The committee is looking for validation? - alcaray - 9/27/2005 8:36:52 PM
        
        re: The committee is looking for validation? - SteveS - 9/27/2005 10:19:36 PM
        
        I do not know what research the congressmen did or had their staffs do. - alcaray - 9/27/2005 10:58:12 PM

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