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National Interest: Sweden's Navy Asks: Please Don't Live Stream Our Submarines
Back in 2009, the Swedish town of Karlskrona had a brilliant idea to boost tourist traffic: install Web cameras overlooking the picturesque Swedish coast.
But there was just one problem with this marketing gimmick: as a local writer pointed out this summer, the Karlskrona cameras were live streaming the nearby naval base—Sweden's largest and home to the country's fleet of five advanced non-nuclear submarines.
Now, a submarine's best friends are stealth and secrecy, which is why submariners jealously guard these qualities. And there is nothing less secret than a live stream of subs sailing on the surface as they leave and enter port.
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WNU Editor: We are living in an era where it is difficult to keep secrets.
3 comments:
Please? Pretty please?
Ffs. This should be illegal, simple as that. The military's/navy's job is to protect you. It's a deadly job. They even die during training missions sometimes. And you're getting in the way. And you're endangering them. First time offenders: $50 fine and register in a DB. Second time offenders: $500. Third time: jail time and $5000. Simple as that. No sympathy for idiots who can't control their urge to stream everything.
comment oversimplifies..I have dealth with very secret stuff in a war zone and found classified stuff dumped in trash cans...and classified stuff (at least labelled as such) in Army newspaper!and that was long before the net and social media etc
Your missing the point.
On one side is you finding stuff by accident (one of your examples), on the other hand you have intent to produce and distribute sensitive material.
It has nothing to do with classification, really. The government can simply say "(please) don't do xyz" and then if you not only do it, but you amplify the problem through distribution, you're "more" guilty of a crime, than if you just stumbled across stuff by accident and didn't do anything with it.
Two very different things. The only thing in common is the "sensitive/classified" nature. But you're getting hung up on that. That's not the issue here. Boats leaving cannot be classified if known to public. Same as a patent cannot be filed if known to public. Get it? :)
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