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I saw a reference to Intellipedia on Dvorak Uncensored and thought it was interesting. The first thing that caught my eye and one of the reasons why I categorize the Dvorak blog post as mixed feedback (on Intellipedia) is because of the blog post title: "Will the Feds succeed in keeping hackers out of Intellipedia?" By writing this title, I think the author already assumes that Intellipedia will be cracked. (Whether that is true or not, I don't know, but I'd like to think that it is not possible to crack Intellipedia from the outside.) Now I know that doesn't say much about the usefulness of Intellipedia, but they chose to look the potentially negative aspects as opposed to the positive...

Well anyway, what do you think? Can Intellipedia be cracked?

Also, when you read through the post, make sure to read the comments. There are some interesting ones...

One other thing that I thought was interesting observation in the blog post was the following paragraph:

Of course, the evocative remark is Wertheimer worrying about American citizens learning what intelligence [sic] experts really tell the hacks in the White House and Congress. No fear — otherwise!

The author is referring to Dr. Wertheimer's comment:

“We’re taking a risk,” acknowledged Michael Wertheimer, the intelligence community’s chief technical officer. “There’s a risk it’s going to show up in the media, that it’ll be leaked.” 

The only issue that I have with the author's comment above is that if US citizens can read it so can anyone else in the world so I wouldn't say that Dr. Wertheimer is necessarily only worried about things getting leaked the people of the US...

Thoughts? 

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