A Ministry of Defence document advising staff how to stop documents leaking onto the internet has been leaked onto the internet.
The Defence Manual of Security is intended to help MoD, armed forces and intelligence personnel maintain information security, reports the Daily Telegraph.
But the 2,400-page restricted document has found its way on to Wikileaks, a website that publishes anonymous leaks of sensitive information.
The Joint Services Protocol 440 (JSP 440) was published in 2001 and is used as justification for the monitoring of certain websites, including Wikileaks.
It says: "Leaks usually take the form of reports in the public media which appear to involve the unauthorised disclosure of official information (whether protectively marked or not) that causes political harm or embarrassment to either the UK Government or the Department concerned..."
The document is particularly keen to avoid the attentions of journalists, noting them as "threats" alongside foreign intelligence services, criminals, terrorist groups and disaffected staff.
As far as traditional espionage and intelligence threats go, the document singles out the Chinese as having "a voracious appetite for all kinds of information; political, military, commercial, scientific and technical".
Wikileaks was also behind the leaks of the British National Party membership list, the operating procedures at Guantanamo Bay and the secret workings of the Church of Scientology.
Source : Ananova
The Defence Manual of Security is intended to help MoD, armed forces and intelligence personnel maintain information security, reports the Daily Telegraph.
But the 2,400-page restricted document has found its way on to Wikileaks, a website that publishes anonymous leaks of sensitive information.
The Joint Services Protocol 440 (JSP 440) was published in 2001 and is used as justification for the monitoring of certain websites, including Wikileaks.
It says: "Leaks usually take the form of reports in the public media which appear to involve the unauthorised disclosure of official information (whether protectively marked or not) that causes political harm or embarrassment to either the UK Government or the Department concerned..."
The document is particularly keen to avoid the attentions of journalists, noting them as "threats" alongside foreign intelligence services, criminals, terrorist groups and disaffected staff.
As far as traditional espionage and intelligence threats go, the document singles out the Chinese as having "a voracious appetite for all kinds of information; political, military, commercial, scientific and technical".
Wikileaks was also behind the leaks of the British National Party membership list, the operating procedures at Guantanamo Bay and the secret workings of the Church of Scientology.
Source : Ananova
