Defence chiefs have been forced into an embarrassing emergency retraction after secret information about the UK's nuclear-powered submarines was inadvertently published on a website.
A technical error meant sections of a Ministry of Defence report that appeared to have been blacked out could in fact be read by anyone who copied and pasted them into another document.
Incompetence at it's best. I'm amazed by the hundreds of cases i've seen of ineptitute in organisations of power. You'd think with all the astronomical budgets that they'd have real experts at work at Defense, especially given their close relationships with intelligence agencies.
so what do we know now about uks nukesubs. does this help me better nuke things?
Fixed that for you.Spoiler:"But look, I made it all black! There is NO WAY anyone can read it now!"
Note though, this might not be such a big failure as it sounds. Well, it is big, but since PDF allows you to disallow copy and paste, something might have simply gone wrong there. A simple error instead of a massive fail in computer literacy.
Even if you disable copy/paste, the text would still be available, you'd just need Acrobat or some other PDF authoring tool.
Even if you disable copy/paste, the text would still be available, you'd just need Acrobat or some other PDF authoring tool.