Actually - look into the history of DSNET-1 as this is where SIPR came from. My first duty station still had 10Mbps Coax that was used for SIPR. :shudder: (Sending to the list as well) -- Thomas Jones http://www.TheOtherTomJones.com http://twitter.com/OtherTomJones http://www.linkedin.com/in/TheOtherTomJones One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. -- Albert Einstein, On Education -- Sent with Sparrow On Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
Can anyone provide a citable statement of how SIPRNet started? -- it's where the WikiLeaks cables came from?
What person/agency came up with the idea of putting all the US State Dept and US Defense Dept diplomatic secret and confidential cables on the internal net to keep all of them in the know.
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