Classic US Government Fuck Up.

[Thinker]

Readers 'declassify' US document

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4506517.stm

When news started circulating in Italy that a heavily censored Pentagon report into the death of secret agent Nicola Calipari had been decrypted, many thought it must be the work of some top-notch hacker.

In fact, it turned out that the classified document, containing top-secret details - such as the name of the soldier who fired the deadly rounds of ammunition - could be made readable with two simple clicks of your computer mouse........

 

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I found both versions of the docmuent here:

http://www.macchianera.net/archives/2005/05/il_rapporto_cal.html

Scroll down the page a bit. The black 'highlighted' document is the original. The yellow 'highlighted' document is the restored version. I'm saving a copy on my hard drive to read completely later.

 

Suppose the person responsible for that screw up is doing tequilla shots about now to forget the pain...or are they being questioned under hot lights in an FBI interrogation room?

[willstrickland]

It will be a classic pass the buck scene. "Well the version of Acrobat the govt provided was insufficient, it was ITs fault for providing an insufficient tool."

 

IT says "Nope, user incompetence".

 

User says "I was not properly trained on the procedure, I think it was discrimination because I am a trandgendered american with small feet, therefore I should sue"

 

Pentagon says "thanks for focusing on this and not the British reports showing collusion for regime change a year before the invasion and shaping intelligence to build the case for war"

 

BushCo says "It was Clinton's fault, blame it on the libruls"

 

Frist says "If the Democrats were not playing partisan politics and being obstructionists, this never would have happened. Why do the Democrats hate our military?"

 

Delay says "That's fine, but right now I need to focus on which GOP donor is going to pay for the wife and I to go to Spain this year."

 

And Rove says "Hmm, the kerning on those documents looks a bit off. Dan Rather must be behind this"

[willstrickland]

Hey BTW Thinker, I'm interviewing for a job in SLC on Thurs. More or less exactly what I do now, same employer etc, just a promotion. Hopefully it works out, I'll give you a shout if I'm headed your way.

[Thinker]

Will, let me know if you have any extra time here on Thurs; I'll meet your for a and show you some of SLC's better dives.

[klenke]

Tried to look at the non-blacked version and PDF file won't open (says there was an error doing so). Maybe someone put the kibosh on it. Well, you do have the original, eh?

[chucK]

I would guess that it clearly details rules of engagement at checkpoints, which of course would be very useful to people who wanted to attack checkpoints or smuggle stuff through them.

 

Don't know if you'll have much use for that info though Klenke. I hope

[rbw1966]

I opened it up just fine and was able to verify the ability to reveal the classified information. Thank god I did it from my work computer and not at home!

[billcoe]

Works for me Klenke, might be your version of adobe.

[klenke]

I tried again. Must be my Adobe. Darn it, chucK, that info might have been handy for me to strategize ways of attacking Oly at the Thursday BBQ.

[chucK]

Maybe it's that filter program your Mom put on your computer.

[Thinker]

If you can open the blacked out version, then you can copy and paste it into a MS Word document to see all the juicy details.

[klenke]

Mom's Rule #34 applies then, I guess.

Mom's Rule #34: "What if everybody knew it? Would everybody be better off then?"

 

Mother's Day is coming up. If I get her a nice big box of chocolates maybe she'll give me the password for the filter program.

 

Dave: can't copy-paste a PDF to Word, at least not with my version of Adobe.

[Thinker]

Klenke, maybe you'll need to take a trip to the library and use one of their unfiltered machines with current software...