Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents

cyclop writes "In March, U.S. troops in Iraq shot to death Nicola Calipari, the Italian intelligence agent that rescued the kidnapped journalist Giuliana Sgrena. U.S. commission on the incident produced a report which public version was censored for more than one third. Now Italian press is reporting that all confidential information in the report is available to the public, just by copying "hidden" text from the PDF and pasting it in a word processor (Italian). The uncensored report can now be directly downloaded (evil .DOC format, sorry)"

Comments

It's illegal to knowingly download classified docs

[Anonymous Coward]

I trust you will do the right thing.

it makes sense

[GuruBob]

This is now a known known.

Re:It's illegal to knowingly download classified d

[div_2n]

Does that mean the government is guilty of entrapment for releasing a PDF with the classified text included?

I'd like to see them try to prosecute this.

Re:It's illegal to knowingly download classified d

[mrsev]

I know nothing! I just click all the links on a slashdot page and hope for the best!

Re:Oh dear

[Anonymous Coward]

Hidden text?! What were they thinking!

"In God we trust"?

Re:No smoking gun?

[Dun Malg]

It's unfortunate but if you choose to negotiate with kidnappers (and thereby encourage more kidnapping) and further don't tell someone who's subject to daily suicide car bombs that you're going to be speeding down a road that is infamous for daily suicide car bombs, is it any surprise this happened?

I think this falls under the same category as the famous Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy:

"I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and hand it to him."

Key words to search for:

[FlashpointWork]

Area 51
Greys
JFK Assassination
Hilary Clinton

No instances found. Damn.

Re:If it was me

[lxs]

Was that footage taken by the same satellite that showed chemical weapons factories in Iraq?

Re:No smoking gun?

[legirons]

"Should I expect less if I make jerky motions into my pockets when a police officer pulls me over for a routine traffic accident?"

As a road-user, I find it worrying that you'd consider any traffic accident "routine" (ignoring for a moment the whole "shoot anyone who looks at you funny" argument)

Re:It's illegal to knowingly download classified d

[gravyfaucet]

keep hoping

Subject to US Law

[Anonymous Coward]

So would I, considering that the people distributing it are in Italy and therefore not subject to US law.

Sadam Hussien thought he wasn't subject to US law either. Guess where he's at right now?

Re:Subject to US Law

[Valar]

-1, naive.

Re:It's illegal to knowingly download classified d

[pinchhazard]

Another example of this kind of thinking is on the moblog site, yafro.com. There are tons of women who post nude photos of themselves in their accounts.

I feel a great disturbance in the Net, as if millions of geeks stampeded to yafro.com, and then were silent but for gentle fapping.

Re:Oh dear

[hhlost]

...would have learned from their mistakes.

Are you talking about PDFs or Vietnam?

Who is this terrorist, Copi An Paste?

[Aexia]

Kind of sounds... Arabic to me. Probably al Quaeda's chief county-intelligence chief if he's single-handedly breaking the United States' best encryption methods.

Shouldn't we be bringing him and everyone at Slashdot who has obviously associated with him numerous times in to Gitmo for "questioning"?