Homeland Security: Wikipedia Larger Threat Than Terrorism, D

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* Homeland Security Official: Wikipedia Larger Threat Than
Terrorism, Dixie Chicks Combined

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) raised the
national threat level from 'High' to 'Severe' this weekend
after a senior official stumbled upon Wikipedia.org, a
popular online open-content encyclopedia.

"There is enough information at that website to allow
anyone to know anything," said Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff in a statement Wednesday. "Such access
poses a significant threat to the well-being and integrity
of this administration."

An unnamed senior official became aware of the vast amounts
of information online when he walked past his son's
computer and saw the Wikipedia entry, "Project for the New
American Century." He immediately edited the page, deleting
the article before his son returned.

"Knowledge is power, and if the sum of human knowledge
falls into the wrong hands, we risk a disaster
incomprehensibly larger than Sept. 11. It'd be like Sept.
11 and the Dixie Chicks combined. Times a million."

The DHS announced plans to work with major telecoms to
prevent American access to the popular website.

Wikipedia admins have been working overtime to restore the
deleted page.

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[AYHJA]

:dazed:

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

sounds like the Blame Game.

[ootpoot]

... speaking of April Fools jokes, here is a terrific new one and a classic oldie:

Flying penguins http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... uin101.xml found by BBC, who also reported on the
spaghetti harvest http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witn ... 362667.stm story fifty years ago.

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