A George Mason University student named Sean Gorman has put together a wealth of information that could prove devastating if it were to fall into the wrong hands. The government has taken an interest and has considered classifying his work- however he obtained all of the information he used in creating it from freely available public resources.

Perhaps the Freedom of Information Act and similar laws should be reviewed. Obviously there are important pieces of information available to the public which perhaps nobody really has the need to know. While we can't have the government hiding information from the public, we also need to be conscious of the impact the information we share could have.

The U.S. government is already mis-using and abusing its expanded powers from 9/11 to erode the rights of U.S. citizens and hide their actions and large portions of the budget under the guise of "national security" interests. You don't want to give them any more "reason" to hide information in the interest of "national security".

Its a fine line to walk.

Here is the article about the grad student: Dissertation Could Be Threat To National Security