NASA CRGIS site offline "for review"

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Since 15th December:

"The CRGIS historic information site is under review.
The site will not be available during this review period.
Inquires regarding this activity may be submitted using the link below.
An individual response to an inquiry cannot be guaranteed."
 
Came up against that brick wall yesterday when researching information for a paper :(
 
overscan (PaulMM) said:
Thereby demonstrating why you should always download interesting stuff...
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Don't worry. I'm sure a complete backup, including internal communications among CRGIS staff and a complete list of daily menus at their cafeteria dating back to the 80's, resides in Beijing.
 
Orionblamblam said:
overscan (PaulMM) said:
Thereby demonstrating why you should always download interesting stuff...
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Don't worry. I'm sure a complete backup, including internal communications among CRGIS staff and a complete list of daily menus at their cafeteria dating back to the 80's, resides in Beijing.
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Presumably the CIA have a copy of the Beijing server :)
 
Orionblamblam said:
overscan (PaulMM) said:
Thereby demonstrating why you should always download interesting stuff...
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Don't worry. I'm sure a complete backup, including internal communications among CRGIS staff and a complete list of daily menus at their cafeteria dating back to the 80's, resides in Beijing.
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Where is Frank Wolf when you need him ? I though he had solved the issue of chinese spies at NASA in 2012, by gutting the NTRS... oh wait the chinese spie Wolf caught had mistook NASA for PORNHUB, forget it...
 
It just dawned on me that the site may be down for forensics/fumigation/remediation due to the SolarWinds breach of last year.
 
aim9xray said:
It just dawned on me that the site may be down for forensics/fumigation/remediation due to the SolarWinds breach of last year.
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Something was found on there that wasn't correctly declassified, so the entire site was pulled offline for 'review'. It is almost certainly not coming back. Too time-consuming and costly.
 
quellish said:
The full (redacted) story:

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The document in question was accessible using the URL https:// crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/crgis/images/e/eb/Resumes1946.pdf
The document appears to have a originated in 1946. 2. It is part of the "John Stack Collection", https:// crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/John_Stack_Archives_Collection, which is a collection of papers returned to the NASA Langley by his son.

Well that's stupid. Something marked "Confidential" from 1946? Unless it was diagrams of Fat Man, there's nothing it could have held that would actually be really classified anymore.
 
Hypothetically speaking, one curious enough might check through the Wayback machine to see if any copy of the document has ever been archived.

Hypothetically.
 
overscan (PaulMM) said:
That is a most depressing set of documents. A truly magnificent public resource destroyed over a stupid and minor issue of a single document, and nobody at NASA could gave a shit about it.
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The issue, as they see it, is that if there's one protectively marked document, there might be more that they haven't found yet. So the legally safe option is to pull the whole lot until it's reviewed.

Of course, there's no budget to review it. Especially because the reviewer(s) would likely need a security clearance. So it's functionally dead to the world, until specific documents get individually re-released through other channels.
 
Hypothetically speaking, far be it from me the intention of retrieving a file marked as confidential, the document in question was just about wind tunnel models at NACA Langley in 1946.
 

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