Ok, so I'm over at ICANN's website ( http://www.icann.org/committees/dns-...-statement.htm ) trying to get some information on Root DNS Servers.

One of the links I see is "Army Research Laboratory - Aberdeen, MD USA http://www.arl.mil "
<<~~ Clicking on a the link brings you to a page that says:

Forbidden
You were denied access because:
Access denied by access control list.

Now I'm even more curious about what's on this site. At this point most of us would just say oh well, off to the next site, but there's actually a place to turn to. The Big G

I query Google to see the site's contents,( http://www.google.com/search?num=100...il&btnG=Search ) and sure enough, a ton of data? But is this classified information that's being served up on our popular search engines? On the second page of results I see pages with the words "missile simulation." so I'm sure the content really can't be too good.

Using this access control list makes clear that this Army Research Laboratory website doesn't want visitors from networks it doesn't trust. So who's handling our National Security here if webspiders easily index the content and make it public? I think that's pretty sad.

What do you think about the people who are handling our government's websites?


--PuRe