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NASA is Taking More Servers Offline – With No Explanation

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
May 2, 2013
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Keith’s note: After a month and a half NTRS is apparently no closer to being online. But the paranoia is spreading. Now, when you go to the NASA Image Exchange, you get the same notice that greets frustrated NTRS users:
“The NASA technical reports server will be unavailable for public access while the agency conducts a review of the site’s content to ensure that it does not contain technical information that is subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations and that the appropriate reviews were performed. The site will return to service when the review is complete. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”
Given the unclassified porn that was on Bo Jiang’s laptop I guess NASA is now looking to see if there is porn – especially the classified and ITAR-sensitive variety – on their servers. Yes, I am being silly. But this makes no sense. Why is NASA taking servers with old NASA PAO photos offline in response to Jiang’s laptop contents? NASA has known what was (and was not) on Bo Jiang’s laptop for quite some time – well before this image server was taken offline. To be certain, using government computers to download porn is wrong and violators need to be dealt with. Were large NASA servers taken offline when previous cases arose concerning NASA personnel? No. Why now?
NASA Technical Reports Server Mysteriously Taken Offline, earlier post
NASA Blocks Everyone From Access To Everything on NTRS, earlier post

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3 responses to “NASA is Taking More Servers Offline – With No Explanation”

  1. Sherye Johnson says:
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    So what?

  2. aerowatch says:
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    Actually, the NASA Image Exchange, for some time now, has been a subcollection hosted by the NTRS— they are part of one and the same ‘server’.
    There is no doubt about it, taking the NTRS offline was an unnecessary, knee-jerk reaction. All of the content has been vetted through the many years with regard to export-control and other possible limitations. The problem lies with the NASA Export Control Office. They seem incapable of (or unwilling to) establish a rational and reasonable policy to address materials that have been in the public domain for decades. The Defense Department seems to handle this without issue— why can’t NASA?

  3. Eric Fielding says:
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    I don’t know what is going on with the NASA Image Exchange. The JPL Photojournal is still online http://photojournal.jpl.nas… with some of the same images.