NASA appears to have blocked public access to a server containing thousands of technical documents amidst charges by one US lawmaker over lapses of security involving a Chinese national
Is he? http://washingtonexaminer.com/doj-defense-contractor-shared-nuclear-defense-secrets-with-young-chinese-lover/article/2524768
Let's hope he stole the SLS plans... should set the chinese back DECADES. But ya, taking NTRS down seems overreactive. Representative Wolf's press release makes it sound like he singlehandedly stopped the espionage. Please.
Which many at NASA have willfully ignored..He's not just making this stuff up. China *is* engaged in a widespread industry espionage program.
True, but you'd thought that someone would have checked the documents for ITAR before putting them up on NTRS. And I doubt that the Chinese can filtrate someone on this position....
moral of the story is to not answer questions without a lawyer
And no, NASA doesn't just willy-nilly put sensitive stuff on NTRS.
IIRC there's no requirement to do so. That's the problem.