Why governments need to understand how the Internet works?

Although this has been around for quite some time now, governments and companies seem to be having a hard time understanding how it actually works.
This has been evident many times, starting with the entertainment industry asking Google to police the Internet and remove links from results. s, considering that in this way they can completely eliminate them.

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The same thing happened when governments asked journalists to go digital files. The most obvious example happened a few months ago when the British intelligence services have called for Guardian journalists to destroy their hard drivesς, containing the Snowden records.

This, of course, happened despite the newspaper's efforts to point out to the British ότι η κίνηση θα είχε νόημα δεδομένου ότι τα αρχεία είναι αποθηκευμένα και κάπου αλλού. Αυτό είναι και το πλεονέκτημα των ψηφιακών εγγράφων – η δυνατότητα να έχουν αμέτρητα αντίτυπα, αποθηκευμένα σε εξίσου αμέτρητες συσκευές, στο σύννεφο, σε μηνύματα ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου και αλλού.

Then comes the Australian government's turn to do something crazy. OR Asher Wolf, an Australian journalist working at the local Guardian branch was asked to return confidential information that had already been published.

The request Wolf received required her to return the files she used to write an article titled “Immigration Department data lapse reveals asylum seekers' details,” which was published last week .
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The article mentioned in the request sent by the government was based on a document that was available on the website of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, which contained personal information of current and former prisoners.

"The information, which was never intended for publication, was available to them. "Once they realized the unintentional breach, the service took immediate steps to remove the material from its website," said Wolf.

The government reminded that journalists should not pass information through "dishonest and unfair" media, which, of course, is quite hilarious considering that any material published on the Internet is common and therefore available for everyone to read and to download it.

The reporter was then asked to return all copies of the information immediately.

Of course, this could only happen from people who do not understand anything about how computers and the Internet work.

For its part, Wolf responded to the government, insisting on its position and pointing out the obvious - that the file used by the Guardian was already available to the public. Even if the newspaper published it, it tried to protect the people whose names were mentioned in the archive.

Wolf concluded her letter stating that she did not know who else had taken the document or had access to the information and that she obviously had no intention of giving the service any of her storage devices.

This record has since been downloaded from the state website.

Finally, it is very important that governments begin to learn that when one of their departments publishes a document in error, the document is available to the public and that those responsible for the mistake should be accountable, not the journalist or anyone else has access to the file.

Article by Gabriela Vatu from softpedia

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