I agree with you.    Wget saved him having to right click and save as 
for each of hundreds if not thousands of files.  Using wget to do this 
would make it a lot easier for someone to steal lots of data.  If he 
knew it wasn't allowed, he shouldn't have used it.  Still some of the 
blame has to lie with the Army's IT people who didn't configure the 
computers so that they wouldn't run unauthorized software.

On a related note, 30+ years ago Russian dissidents would flee Russia, 
tell the world what horrible things the Russian government was doing to 
its own people, then settle in the US.  Now the dissident flees the US, 
tells the world what terrible things the US is doing to its own people, 
then settles in Russia.

On 08/11/2013 10:30 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Government allows and uses a lot of Open Source Software. If there is 
> an actual reason, it is more likely to be its extreme versatility to 
> be able to download a LOT of files without foreknowledge of what will 
> be downloaded.
>
> BTW, wget is available for virtually all platforms.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com 
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     the reason it is banned is probably because it is open source.
>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>     On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com
>     <mailto:lthielster@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Agreed, Eric.  It makes no sense whatever.  The judge should
>         be reviewed.  That said, did the guy download wget knowing it
>         was "banned"?  Why should it be banned?  maybe there is/was a
>         reason but I don't know what it might be.
>
>
>         On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Michael Havens
>         <bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             bummer: I thought it was going to br a positive story.
>             :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>             On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Eric Cope
>             <eric.cope@gmail.com <mailto:eric.cope@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/30/the-free-web-program-that-got-bradley-manning-convicted-of-computer-fraud/
>
>                 <opinion>this is insanity at its best</opinion>
>
>                 Eric
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