Posted on 05/01/2005 5:15:26 PM PDT by murdocj
Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents
Although about a third of the report was classified, some clever individual discovered that by copying the hidden .pdf text and pasting it into a word processor the classified information was made visible.
Below is the full text of the .doc document.
(Excerpt) Read more at murdoconline.net ...
Was there really some moron that thought this was good enough to keep the secrets secret? Or did someone (our investigative team, perhaps?) that wanted this stuff out in public?
Copy and paste? Try Save as Text. You'll get a more legible version.
When Google gets around to indexing it, I wonder if the redacted text will be (a) findable in the index and (b) visible in Google's HTML rendition.
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