Joint Services Protocol 440 is a document designed to give the government of the United Kingdom some authority in watching over document leaking websites like Wikileaks. The 2,400-page document goes into great detail about what to watch for, what sites to monitor, and who not to give your information to (anti-government forces like journalists, the Chinese, etc.). It goes without saying that the Ministry of Defence was mortified when the anti-leaking document got leaked online.
It’s not a total fail on the Ministry of Defence’s part. After all, the document has been around since 2001 and has just now been leaked. Eight years of silence in government time is an eternity. Still, the fact that it got leaked to one of the very websites it was designed to monitor over is pretty funny. Well, funny unless you work for the MoD, in which case it’s no laughing matter.
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