How not to declassify a document

[KoolAidKid]

Open this in Acrobat reader. Right click on the black bars. Enjoy.

link

 

[her209]

LOL, nice.

 

[So]

:laugh:

 

[mundane]

Weak, you can cut and paste right out of it into Notepad. Is this a joke?

 

[tm37]

IDIOTS

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
Weak, you can cut and paste right out of it into Notepad. Is this a joke?

Nope. It is for real. This is the investigative report on the incident on the Italian Il Manifesto journalist who's car got shot up when she was being retrieved from her kidnappers. They meant to redact all the operational intelligence from the report for public release but someone obviously doesn't know how to work Adobe Acrobat.

 

[Pepsei]

woah

 

[mordantmonkey]

From 1 November 2004 to 12 March 2005 there were a total of 3306 attacks
in the Baghdad area. Of these, 2400 were directed against Coalition Forces. (Annex 8E)

interesting to know what kinds of things are "classified"

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
Weak, you can cut and paste right out of it into Notepad. Is this a joke?

Nope. It is for real. This is the investigative report on the incident on the Italian Il Manifesto journalist who's car got shot up when she was being retrieved from her kidnappers. They meant to redact all the operational intelligence from the report but someone obviously doesn't know how to work Adobe Acrobat.

Hm. I guess I should read it, in its entirety.

I interned for a company that did gvmt software/research contracts. I was informed of a couple of instances in which some companies were compiling reports for submission, but didn't take into account that the word processor (MS Word or Adobe or some other popular app) 'remembered' much of the deleted content of the documents. Since a lot of that content was intended for internal use only, it created some discomfort when the customer (Uncle Sam) saw some questionable comments =)

 

[Armitage]

This is one reason all of the documents we reduce classification on have to be reduced to ascii text, and then reviewed & transferred in that format.

It's a PITA, but some folks got burned ahile ago when a briefing was released that had classified notes in the powerpoint speakers notes section, and again when classified text in a Word document was recovered by pulling up the revision history.