[karajorma]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/18/trident-nuclear-submarine-secrets-leak

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.

 

[The E]

"But look, I made it all black! There is NO WAY anyone can read it now!"


In other news, computer literacy sure would be a nice thing to have in government officials, wouldn't it?

[JCDNWarrior]

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.

[The E]

It's all part of the same thinking that treats computers as magical typewriters.

[Grizzly]

Military rule number 1:

Cover does not equal concealment.

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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.

[The E]

Even if you disable copy/paste, the text would still be available, you'd just need Acrobat or some other PDF authoring tool.

[Shivan Hunter]

Defence chiefs: "O god how did this get here I am not good with computer"

[Klaustrophobia]

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.

i've always known the government as a whole is retarded, but now that i work for it, it's on a whole new level.  PC run amok has let the most unbelievable idiots in and kept them here.  for example, we had a guy with a borderline serial killer personality throw a tantrum when none of the departments wanted him.  one of the recruiters said his resume was stamped with a big "do not hire," but they had to let him in because he was a veteran.  by which i mean he was dishonorably discharged from the navy and somehow got the dishonorable part removed later. 

[Nuke]

so what do we know now about uks nukesubs. does this help me better nuke things?

[Grizzly]

so what do we know now about uks nukesubs. does this help me better nuke things?

No, it only allows you to carry them around better. And in concealment.

[karajorma]

US secrets were also leaked by accident as a result of this.

[S-99]

Spoiler:

"But look, I made it all black! There is NO WAY anyone can read it now!"

Fixed that for you.

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.

Spoiler:

SCREENSHOTS!!!!!!

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Even if you disable copy/paste, the text would still be available, you'd just need Acrobat or some other PDF authoring tool.

Print Screen.

[S-99]

You found out how to reveal my text!!!! What do i do now?

EDIT: Im surprised the use of spoiler tags didnt come up in the first post actually.