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TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All
A travel blog breaks the story of a poor job of redacting by the TSA: they posted a PDF of airport screening policies, with certain sections blacked out — not realizing that simply laying a black rectangle over the text is hardly sufficient. Cryptome has posted a copy with the redaction removed (ZIP).
Hey TSA dudes, do your bit for the environment and use ^H like we do on slashdot.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
but must admit that this strikes a blow to their reputation for competence and effectiveness.
ttp:cryptomeorgtsa-screeningzip
The cryptome URL has been redacted. Nothing to see here, move along.
Sincerely,
TSA
using System.Awesome;
Whats the penalty for subverting a copy prevention measure?
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dude, you zipped a pdf....
thats almost as bad as when my mom puts a jpg in a doc to email it.
You just gave me a mental image of some TSA bureaucrat sitting at his computer putting black magic marker lines on the CRT screen as he reviews the PDF.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Since when has global significance been a requirement for slashdot articles? Half the time significance isn't even a requirement.
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Yo dawg, I heard you like security, so I put some lines in your lines so you can wait while you wait.
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Heroscape, it's like legos combined with anachronistic wargames.
Which, as the summary explains, is absolutely true.
I am officially gone from