Student Uncovers US Military Secrets

karthik_r085 writes "According to The Register, An Irish graduate student has uncovered words blacked-out of declassified US military documents using nothing more than a dictionary and text analysis software. Claire Whelan, a computer science student at Dublin City University was given the problems by her PhD supervisor as a diversion. David Naccache, a cryptographer with Gemplus, challenged her to discover the words missing from two documents: one was a memo to George Bush, and another concerned military modifications to civilian helicopters."

Comments

So if this is true

[Zorak Man]

What this means, is the Government messed up? No way.. thats impossible

This headline is a bit hyperbolic

[Saint Stephen]

Slashdot, this is yellow journalism.

Anyway this technique is easily foiled; just produce a document with randomly increased or shrink Blacked out boxes; or just subsitute all blacked out phrases with "***". Even if it's a photostat you can photoshop it.

I"m not impressed.

Re:YO

[Meneudo]

You must be new here... :P

Re:Then maybe I'm stupid too

[ChrisMaple]

Let's see, the U.S. freed the Phillipines from a Spanish tyranny and rather than subsuming the islands, the U.S. eventually set them off on their own.

Most of the mideast prior to the actions of western oil companies were vaste wastelands traversed by ignorant nomads. The western oil companies discovered the oil, gave it value, and it then was stolen by the disgusting murderers that call themselves governments in the mideast.

Re:Then maybe I'm stupid too

[MisterFancypants]

I suspect that if the Army had shown a merciless Iron Hand in the immediate aftermath of the war -- shoot-on-sight curfews, round-ups, summary trials and executions -- we would have instilled a level of fear-based respect we don't have now, not to mention preservation of infrastructure and law and order.

But that would have sparked a revolution back here in the US. You shithead.

Re:bloody liar you are!

[samhalliday]

you sir, are an arsehole... and you should worry about the problems of your own country and not stick your nose into others. i speak for everyone from northern ireland when i say this.