In a conversation with someone over the past week or so, I mentioned a term I’d run across when I was doing support work for our office in Los Alamos, regarding data that was, piece by piece, not classified, but which was classified in aggregate (e.g., these three pieces of paper were individually not dangerous to leak into the wrong hands, but if all three did, it constituted a security breach), and which thus required special handling.
The term I couldn’t remember was “UCNI” (Unclassified Nuclear Information) (and pronounced “ucknee”).
I can’t remember now who I was chatting with about it, but odds are good they read my blog on occasion, so …
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Wow, haven’t heard the term in two years.
Wasn’t me though.
Actually, any one of the pieces (drawings) of info would be bad, because someone could take it and match it up with something that was unclassified, or UCNI and extrapolate the info that they were looking for.
The whole classification process was a Byzantine procedure to try and figure out what was classified or not classified. Building wise, much of it was anything that showed dimensions or outer walls was a given. Equipment types and model names were others.
That was me, I think — probably pursuant to an IDC or Alias conversation — I remember it being at your house, though.
So Doyce, what did you want to know about UNCI?
Sorry, that’s on a Need to Know basis.
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And lets see if this will make it past ***Daves new little blocker jobby.
Odd.
***Dave’s new blocker jobby posts stuff even though it say’s it’s not posting stuff due to the time between posting.
Yeah, I noticed that. Odd. My comment updates have been a bit wonky; I’m not going to push a diagnosis in anticipation of MT3.1 coming out RSN.