Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents

cyclop writes "In March, U.S. troops in Iraq shot to death Nicola Calipari, the Italian intelligence agent that rescued the kidnapped journalist Giuliana Sgrena. U.S. commission on the incident produced a report which public version was censored for more than one third. Now Italian press is reporting that all confidential information in the report is available to the public, just by copying "hidden" text from the PDF and pasting it in a word processor (Italian). The uncensored report can now be directly downloaded (evil .DOC format, sorry)"

It's illegal to knowingly download classified docs

[Anonymous Coward]

I trust you will do the right thing.

it makes sense

[GuruBob]

This is now a known known.

Lol

[ABCC]

Way to go Yossarian!

Re:It's illegal to knowingly download classified d

[div_2n]

Does that mean the government is guilty of entrapment for releasing a PDF with the classified text included?

I'd like to see them try to prosecute this.

Re:It's illegal to knowingly download classified d

[mrsev]

I know nothing! I just click all the links on a slashdot page and hope for the best!

Re:Oh dear

[Anonymous Coward]

Hidden text?! What were they thinking!

"In God we trust"?

Re:No smoking gun?

[cyclop]

This summary makes the most sense I've seen in a long time :) Wow! This is a HUGE accomplishment here on /. ! Thank you.

That's what they get for using Microsoft!

[jerw134]

What? It was a PDF? You mean people can do stupid things with software that isn't made by Microsoft?

Re:No smoking gun?

[Dun Malg]

It's unfortunate but if you choose to negotiate with kidnappers (and thereby encourage more kidnapping) and further don't tell someone who's subject to daily suicide car bombs that you're going to be speeding down a road that is infamous for daily suicide car bombs, is it any surprise this happened?

I think this falls under the same category as the famous Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy:

"I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and hand it to him."

Key words to search for:

[FlashpointWork]

Area 51
Greys
JFK Assassination
Hilary Clinton

No instances found. Damn.

Re:It's illegal to knowingly download classified d

[Anonymous Coward]

The report is unclassified because they BLACKED OUT all the classified parts, which they figured out how to get around.

Re:No smoking gun?

[Anonymous Coward]

They're proven liars afterall.

Q: "How can you tell a politician's lying?"
A: "The lips are moving!"

::rim shot::

Re:If it was me

[lxs]

Was that footage taken by the same satellite that showed chemical weapons factories in Iraq?

Some of the hidden text...

[scovetta]

Furthermore, the aliens obtained in Roswell have been transported to R24 along with Specialist Peck for observation.

I knew it!!!

Re:No smoking gun?

[Anonymous Coward]

> And also troop were flashing lights and fired warning shots that were ignored, so the car appeared to be a hostile enemy.

Of course. Because they wanted to be killed to embarass americans.

And they probably had WMD in the car.

Re:No smoking gun?

[legirons]

"Should I expect less if I make jerky motions into my pockets when a police officer pulls me over for a routine traffic accident?"

As a road-user, I find it worrying that you'd consider any traffic accident "routine" (ignoring for a moment the whole "shoot anyone who looks at you funny" argument)

Re:It's illegal to knowingly download classified d

[gravyfaucet]

keep hoping [goatse.ca]

Subject to US Law

[Anonymous Coward]

So would I, considering that the people distributing it are in Italy and therefore not subject to US law.

Sadam Hussien thought he wasn't subject to US law either. Guess where he's at right now?

Re:It's illegal to knowingly download classified d

[pinchhazard]

Another example of this kind of thinking is on the moblog site, yafro.com. There are tons of women who post nude photos of themselves in their accounts.

I feel a great disturbance in the Net, as if millions of geeks stampeded to yafro.com, and then were silent but for gentle fapping.

Re:Oh dear

[Anonymous Coward]

Hidden text?! What were they thinking!

"Hidden text doesn't matter!"

Re:Er..

[emeitner]

Ooooh, seeeeecret!
Page 19:
"2 (S//NF) 2 VOIP is a technology that allows telephone calls to be made using a broadband internet connection instead of a regular (analog) phone line."

Re:Subject to US Law

[Valar]

-1, naive.

Re:coincidence theory

[calambrac]

Have you seen the Bush twins? If I can get a date with one of them, then this all might have been worth it...

Re:Oh dear

[hhlost]

...would have learned from their mistakes.

Are you talking about PDFs or Vietnam?

Re:Psyops aimed at the Italians?

[SharpFang]

Don't explain with ill will what can be explained with stupidity.

Day 0.
Grunt 1: Hey, wake up! Some car just passed by!
Grunt 2: dadadadadadadada! *shooting*
Grunt 1: Hey, stop! I didn't say shoot, just wake up and check them!
Grunt 2: They got away already, screw them.

Day 1:
Drone 1: Shit, grunts screwed up. Write up something to cover it up.
Drone 2: Any info about what happened?
Drone 1: All classified. Will take years to get through the administration, and we need something NOW. Make something up.
Drone 2: Okay.

Day 2:
Drone 1: Okay, but they won't buy... this VIP road part, she already said they were on that road already... and that front shooting part. The car has been shot from behind. The rest looks believable enough.
Drone 2: Ok, erasing these. (Crtl+X, save.)
Drone 1: Looks fine, send to the press.

Re:Nothing for you to see here...

[Gilmoure]

So be prepared to the near future, where the people that is supposed to be protecting you be against you ;) (even your own computer will be against you, remember that)

Wah?

Someone set us up the bomb?

Re:It's illegal to knowingly download classified d

[Neurotoxic666]

They'll never believe you actualy RTFA.

Re:"Not Speeding"

[robbo]

I think anyone, italian or american, can figure out the reason for this disagreement by watching a cowering family of american tourists trying to cross the street in Rome or any other large italian city.

god, yes. I'll never forget the first time I tried to cross a roman street. It took a good five minutes or so to realize that taking advantage of a 'break' in traffic involves jumping in front of a fast moving car and hoping he sees you and slows down while you decide whether the next lane is safer to jump into.. all those years of frogger really paid off. :-)

Who is this terrorist, Copi An Paste?

[Aexia]

Kind of sounds... Arabic to me. Probably al Quaeda's chief county-intelligence chief if he's single-handedly breaking the United States' best encryption methods.

Shouldn't we be bringing him and everyone at Slashdot who has obviously associated with him numerous times in to Gitmo for "questioning"?