“NASA should immediately take down all publicly available technical data sources until all documents that have not been subjected to export control review have received such a review and all controlled documents are removed from the system,” Rep. Wolf said.
In other words, all NASA technical documents, no matter how voluminous and valuable they are, should cease to be publicly available in order to prevent the continued disclosure of any restricted documents, no matter how limited or insignificant they may be.
“There is a HUGE amount of material on NTRS,” said space policy analyst Dwayne Day. “If NASA is forced to review it all, it will never go back online.”
(even though I am probably the last person to defend most of the acts from the Chinese government!) - I remember that it was him who pushes to ban Chinese journalists from reporting the STS-134 launch (!). And now we have got this when NTRS isn't even containing sensitive materials AT ALL - I doubt that the files would not be ITAR-checked prior to uploading, this being a technical material server after all. So :WTF: is this related to the probable Chinese spy (and note the word "probable" - I only give a 50% chance of that person being a spy, given the alleged data transfer method is so dumb)?
