Tuesday, May 10, 2005

More monkeys fucking footballs

I assure you, sir, the redacted portions are
completely unreadable: The Pentagon is likely
reviewing all its recently declassified documents
with a very careful eye this week after learning
that redactions to its publicly released report
on the death of Italian secret agent Nicola
Calipari could be viewed with a simple CTRL-C,
CTRL-V. The Pentagon quietly released the heavily
censored report to the Web in Adobe Systems' PDF
format last weekend, failing to realize that its
hidden portions could be revealed by simply
opening the document in Adobe's free Acrobat
Reader, hitting the select text button, copying
and then pasting that text into any word
processor. "I played around on my computer by
highlighting the text, I found out the words were
still there under the blacked-out bits,"
Salvatore Schifani , one of the first folks to
notice the Pentagon's gaffe, told Repubblica
radio. "It really surprised me, because the best
way of not making this information available
would have been not to write it down in the first
place, rather than putting it there and then
trying to conceal it in such a silly way." Makes
you wonder how many other "censored" Pentagon
documents might be readable this way.

See the document at:
link. (PDF)

or

here.

Original story at

link.

At the second site I downloaded the blacked out
version and did the cut and paste.

Salvatore was right.

Bwaaahahahahah.

Sleep tight. Ur bummint is on the job.

Soon I'm gonna hafta buy a new computer. The coffee
I'm spraying on it from uncontrolled laughter is
gonna ruin it.

Found here.