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Man arrested in eBay sale of historic documents Posted: 2 years ago by bevissimo
A New York state employee who had access to government-owned archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of historic documents, many of which he sold on eBay, authorities said on Monday.
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Update: Declassified documents not readily available Posted: 3 years ago by hypnotode
Evidently, "declassification" doesn't mean you can see the documents.
Bornbad's original article on government declassif...
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Help Us Examine The Lost JFK Files Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Documents found in a vault in the Dallas County District Attorney's office related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been placed online for the public to review for notable information.
Here's your chance to review never-seen-before materials related to the JFK assassination."
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This Message Will Self Destruct: Scientists Develop Programmable, Self-Erasing Documents Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
Remember when, as a kid, you would pass “top-secret” notes written in lemon juice that your friends could only read in the right light? Well, in light of new nanotechnology research, this now sounds absurdly antiquated, like cave painting in the modern era. Instead, the youth of the future (and adults, too) could have the option to communicate via documents that self-erase at a programmed time.
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Judge orders FBI to turn over Patriot Act abuse documents Posted: 2 years ago by kxmk
The order for monthly document releases commencing July 5 came in response to a government sunshine request by a civil liberties group.
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Like Jigsaw Puzzles? How About One With 600 Million Pieces! Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
East Germany shredded millions of top-secret documents when the Berlin Wall came down. They were unable to burn them in time and the West took control of some 600 million pieces of shredded paper in 16,000 bags. The $8.5 million dollar E-Puzzler can put them together again!
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Classified nuke documents found during drug raid. Posted: 3 years ago by tomphoolry
Nuclear weapon scientists with a drug habit. Scary, scary, scary.
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Secret FBI files on John Lennon released. Posted: 3 years ago by tomphoolry
It took 25 years to force the government to release the documents.
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The Memory Hole Posted: 2 years ago by jLoSsDh
Listing of Classified and Restricted Documents at the Air Force Historical Research Agency
Over 500,000 documents cover almost every aspect of US military history from the 1920s to the early 1990s
Very few of these documents have been released to the public
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A Dog Learns to Drive Posted: 3 years ago by jaxomlotus
A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China's Inner Mongolia region, thought it would be a good idea to teach her dog a new trick by having the dog drive her car. The two didnt make to far on the open road before crashing her car.
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Looting the National Archives Posted: 5 months ago by suebe
Visitors to the National Archives know they will find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's rotunda. But they will not find the patent file for the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory.
Here's a list of the missing items.
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Google flirts with online OS Posted: 2 years ago by pjanaway
It's only a matter of time before Google unveils a full-fledged online operating system. This week, Microsoft's biggest rival rolled out a new version of Docs & Spreadsheets - its online answer to Word and Excel - adding Windows-like folders, an improved search engine, and an all-around prettier interface.
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They told you not to reply Posted: 2 years ago by Kevertje
The Washington Post's Security Fix blog today features a funny but scary interview with a guy in Seattle who owns the domain name donotreply.com. Apparently, everyone from major US banks to the Transportation Security Administration to contractors in Iraq use some variation on the address in the "From:" field of all e-mails sent out, with the result that bounced e-mails go to the owner of donotreply.com.'With the exception of extreme cases like those mentioned above, Faliszek says he long ago stopped trying to alert companies about the e-mails he was receiving. It's just not worth it: Faliszek said he is constantly threatened with lawsuits from companies who for one reason or another have a difficult time grasping why he is in possession of their internal documents and e-mails.
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Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer Posted: 8 months ago by bingo
Microsoft's Surface computing device costs an estimated $12,000, and is only being initially sold to retailers and restaurant/casinos. Maximum PC didn't want to pay that price nor wait for touchscreen awesomeness and decided to build their own Surface-style computer using open-source software. The result: a fully-functional multitouch device that lets you play games, manipulate documents, and use google earth-like applications.
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10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid Posted: 2 years ago by bevissimo
Here's a fact of professional life: Your documents and online communications need to be competently written and free of mistakes.
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Twin doctors charged with sex crimes Posted: 9 months ago by equinox
Court documents reveal a long pattern of sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by twin brothers who were also pediatricians. Mark and Scott Blankenburg face dozens of charges of abusing young male patients, sometimes inside the examination room of their office, over the past 20 years.
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JRR Tolkien trained as British spy Posted: 2 months ago by ozero
The novelist JRR Tolkien secretly trained as a Government spy in the run up to the Second World War, new documents have disclosed.
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Was Qwest Punished For Not Spying? Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
The topic itself is redacted each time it appears in the hundreds of pages of documents, but there is mention of Nacchio believing the request was both inappropriate and illegal, and repeatedly refusing to go along with it.
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Hitler escaped to Spain. Posted: 12 months ago by interesting
Some believe that FBI documents exist that show that Hitler did not kill himself in that bunker, but killed a look-alike and took off to Spain.
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Backup Media: Tape, DVD, CD....Paper? Posted: 2 years ago by pumpkinjumper
You read that title correctly, paper can be used as a form of backup media. I am not talking about printing out your documents and filing them away in some nondescript binder to gather dust, no this one is a little more complicated than that.
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