NASA Administrator Charles Bolden testified yesterday before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee about the recent security troubles at NASA and what he’s doing about them.
Bad news: “I have closed down the NASA technical reports database while we review whether there is a risk of export-controlled documents being made available on this website.” So, yeah, NTRS is closed to the public until an army of bureaucrats go through the whole thing.
Good/about-damned-time news: “I have ordered a moratorium on granting any new access to NASA facilities to individuals from specific designated countries, including China, Burma, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Uzbekistan.”
Was NASA *really* providing access to people from North Korea and Iran? Well, at least they wised up enough to put Saudi Arabia on the list.