Student Uncovers US Military Secrets

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday May 16, 2004 @03:57AM 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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lazy spooks by Doc+Ruby · 2004-05-16 05:48 · Score: 0, Redundant

These memos are archived in computers. Why doesn't US Intelligence merely replace the "deleted" words with "[deleted]"? Are they *cough Iraq cough* stuck in the Middle Ages?

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