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Student Uncovers US Military Secrets

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the magic-market-don't-cut-it-no-more dept.

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."

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  1. Whoah O_O by Moth7 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    New story before I can even finish reading TLastFA O_O Note to editors - post more 28 page PDFs, you'll get less FPs ;)

  2. Damn! by DrEldarion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn! I was hoping for downloads.

  3. wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Incredable. 'News' from Ireland.

    This just in: potatos taste like shit.

  4. -1 Slashdotted / Removed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's dead Jim.

  5. ...obligatory Irish joke... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "While driving, an Englishman and an Irishman crash into each other on a dark night. Amazingly, neither is hurt. The Irishman opens a bottle of whiskey and hands it to the Englishman. "May the English and Irish live side by side forever," says the Englishman. He drinks a big gulp, then hands the bottle to the Irishman. "No tanks," says the Irishman. "I'll wait until after the police get here."