Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Italian Mouse Foils Pentagon Censor

Via BBC News comes word that you really don't have to be a rocket scientist to work for the Pentagon:

A few hours after the Pentagon published the report [about the death of secret agent Nicola Calipari] on its website, a few Italian readers found they could make the blacked-out paragraphs reappear by cutting and pasting them from the site into a Word document. Salvatore Schifani, a 30-year-old IT worker ... said he had just come home from a night out and wanted to check the latest news before going to sleep. "I played around on my computer by highlighting the text, I found out the words were still there under the blacked-out bits," he told web-based Repubblica radio.

The military, having lost a trillion dollars to careless accounting and employee malfeasance, now apparently lacks the funds — or merely the competence — to keep secret stuff secret. Amazing.

May 3, 2005 12:10:27 AM

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