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

Er..

[Nifrith]

I'm not of a legal profession or anything, but couldn't distributing "unclassified" classified information be illegal? Just a thought.

Re:Oh dear

[Anonymous Coward]

This is what happens when you let average computer users use Microsoft products to produce "important" documents.

Personally, I think we should instead use highly-trained geeks using highly-sophisticated open source solutions to produce all our documentation.

Re:Checkpoint ahead! Better "save game"...

[LittleLebowskiUrbanA]

So you were there? Hate to tell you this but that's not how the checkpoints are run. Of course I was there so what would I know?

Re:coincidence theory

[Doc Ruby]

I'm glad I could coax you out from under your rock with the PNAC blueprint that they have followed so closely.