Secrecy News -- 09/17/02

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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:17:33 -0400
From: "Aftergood, Steven" <saftergood () fas org>
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Subject: Secrecy News -- 09/17/02

SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2002, Issue No. 90
September 17, 2002


**      SATELLITE RECONNAISSANCE OF IRAQ
**      TRANSPARENCY IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE
**      DETAILS EMERGE ON NOVEMBER 17 GROUP
**      NEW, IMPROVED MOSSAD RECRUITING AD
**      SECRECY IN THE NEWS


[...]


NEW, IMPROVED MOSSAD RECRUITING AD

The Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence organization, has produced a
snazzy new recruiting ad that was published on the web last week:

     http://www.mohr.gov.il/intro_flash.html

The "flash" presentation culminates in an application form for would-be
Mossad operatives to fill in and transmit.

But the security of the site, or rather the lack of any security, was
promptly mocked in the Israeli press.  "Any child could break into the
Mossad's internet site," wrote Dror Globerman and Eytan Rabin in the
Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on September 13.  Subsequently, the
application form was modified to permit encrypted transmission.


[...]

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