[FedCom] FOUO

[Michael Rumberg]

never having been a GS'er, its my understanding For Official Use Only label is not about classifying but rather to ensure the specificly labelled goverment resource isn't used to benefit a non-governmental entity.

as in, department or agency envelopes are only to be used for agency mail and not to mail your own personal bills or send out invitations to your daughters birthday party or your club's picnic or meeting.  the same idea goes with the classic skilcraft ballpoint pens - buy your own, dont steal from the taxpayers.

So, in our case, a listing of frequencies published on goverment letterhead (or directory, etc) is not allowed to be directly copied and pasted into, or used in, a non-governmental entity's publication.  In other words, do your own work.  One would have to take the list and then put it in some other format then publish it.

we are supposed to avail ourselves of the information the guvmint pay for puts out there, you just cant plagiarize it.   Put still another way, one cannot take certain publicly funded resources for your own personal gain.



>From: Ben Russell <benrussellpa at yahoo.com>
>Date: Mon Jun 26 14:17:14 CDT 2006
>To: fedcom at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [FedCom] FOUO

>
>
>The FOUO designation is so frequently used on DHS prepared documents it makes
>me laugh.
>
>I'm a member of a regional hazmat team and have myself plugged in to numerous
>info sources as a result.  http://www.disasterhelp.gov is one of the many
>federal money pits created after 9/11.  If you sign up on that site (go ahead,
>they don't even verify your info, apparently, since I was instantly cleared),
>you can sign up for regular bulletins that arrive in your inbox.
>
>These bulletins cover a variety of terrorism related and other emergency
>topics.  I got one recently that was an assessment of the US rail system.  The
>document was marked FOUO (as are all the other DHS documents you get).  What,
>exactly, was FOUO in this document?  I'm still wodnering.  The thing was so
>simplistic, it was ridiculous.  I could have written a better assessment after
>10 minutes of reading my railroad history books and some websites.  
>
>FOUO seems to me to be a way to make people feel more important.  "I have FOUO
>information and you don't."  Puhlease.
>
>Ben
>
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