Hacking Classified Data Via Cut And Paste
There's a great story on news.com, about how geeks have apparently recovered classified data on a military PDF through cut and paste.
The document in question is the final report on the death of Italian citizen Nicola Calipari, who was killed at an Iraqi checkpoint on March 4.
The U.S. military released it's final report on the incident to the media yesterday and decided to blackout, not delete, portions of the document which it considered sensitive and classified.
Apparently curious geeks discovered if they cut and pasted the blacked out portions of the report into a word processing program, it allowed them to read to classified portions of the document.
The full story is here.
The document in question is the final report on the death of Italian citizen Nicola Calipari, who was killed at an Iraqi checkpoint on March 4.
The U.S. military released it's final report on the incident to the media yesterday and decided to blackout, not delete, portions of the document which it considered sensitive and classified.
Apparently curious geeks discovered if they cut and pasted the blacked out portions of the report into a word processing program, it allowed them to read to classified portions of the document.
The full story is here.
posted by James Mason at 10:32 AM
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