10 January 2011. One of the Eyeball Series:
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/index.html
Singapore Sensitive Sites Eyeball
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_622732.html
Laying out the Government's position on information leaks, Home Affairs Minister
K. Shanmugam noted that the Official Secrets Act allows prosecution of everyone
with a role in the leak, not just the public officers responsible for it.
He said: 'The Government has consistently taken this approach, and has on
occasion charged private citizens for their roles in leakage of government
data.' To do otherwise, he said, would make government information that is
confidential 'the object of a cat and mouse game'.
Singapore Official Secrets Act
http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/cgi-bin/cgi_retrieve.pl?actno=REVED-213&doctitle=
OFFICIAL%20SECRETS%20ACT%0a&date=latest&method=part&sl=1
OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT
"prohibited place" means
(a) any work of defence, arsenal, naval, military or air force establishment,
barrack, camp or station, factory, dockyard, mine, minefield, ship or aircraft
belonging to or occupied by or on behalf of the armed forces or any telegraph,
telephone, wireless or signal station or office so belonging or occupied,
and any place belonging to or occupied by or on behalf of the armed forces
and used for the purpose of building, repairing, making, proving, testing
or storing any munitions of war, or any photographs, drawings, plans, models
or documents relating thereto, or for the purpose of getting or storing any
metals, oil, mechanical transport spirit or aviation spirit or minerals of
use in time of war;
(b) any place not belonging to the armed forces where any munitions of war,
oil, mechanical transport spirit, aviation spirit, fuel or supplies or any
photographs, drawings, models, plans or documents relating thereto, are being
made, repaired, gotten or stored under contract with, or with any person
on behalf of the armed forces, or otherwise on behalf of the armed forces;
(c) any place belonging to or used for the purposes of the armed forces which
is for the time being declared by the Minister, by order published in the
Gazette, to be a prohibited place for the purposes of this section
on the ground that information with respect thereto, or damage thereto, would
be useful to a foreign Power or to an enemy;
(d) any railway, roadway or channel or other means of communication by land
or water (including any bridges, tunnels, piers, works or structures being
part thereof, or connected or used therewith), or any beach, foreshore or
the whole or any part of the territorial waters of Singapore, or any searchlight,
lighthouse, buoy or other navigational aid, or any public building, fire
station, aerodrome or air station, or any signal telegraph or radio station,
or any place used for gas, water, electricity or engineering works or other
works for purposes of a public character, or any place where any munitions
of war or oil, mechanical transport spirit, aviation spirit, fuel or supplies
or any photographs, drawings, models, plans or documents relating thereto
are being made, repaired or stored otherwise than on behalf of the armed
forces, any of the aforesaid being a place which is for the time being declared
by the Minister, by order published in the Gazette, to be a prohibited
place for the purposes of this section, on the ground that information with
respect thereto, or the destruction or obstruction thereof, or interference
therewith would be useful to a foreign Power or to an enemy;
(e) any area (being in the vicinity of any work of defence, arsenal, naval,
military or air force establishment or station, factory, dockyard, mine,
minefield, camp, ship or aircraft, belonging to or occupied by or on behalf
of the armed forces) which is declared by the Minister, by order published
in the Gazette, to be a prohibited place for the purposes of this
section, on the ground that information with respect thereto, or damage thereto,
would be useful to a foreign Power or to an enemy;
(f) any area specified in any notice under any written law for the time being
in force relating to military manoeuvres or any area declared by proclamation
of the Minister under such written law to be a manoeuvring ground or a firing
ground, which is declared by order of the Minister to be a prohibited place
for the purposes of this section;
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