The military is taking thousands of unclassified documents off the public Internet and placing them behind firewalls.

The services are moving documents in droves off public Web sites and onto intranets such as Army Knowledge Online, with access restricted either by username and password, or by IP address.

Consider the given example. While most of the documents here were accessible to all, note how many “documents that appear about as sensitive as the average dry-cleaning ticket” now require that AKO username and password.

“This kind of secrecy doesn’t have anything to do with protecting national security,” says [Steven] Aftergood. “It’s all about the military’s bureaucratic desire to evade outside scrutiny. So while spending keeps going up, oversight is coming down.” — Defense Tech