PDF fiasco

Published Tue, May 3 2005 22:51 | girishb
I am sure you have all read this. Man, This would be funny if it did not make me scared s#$%less. WTF!

We all know that masking over the text of a PDF document doesn't actually erase the underlying text, right?

Don't we?

Seems like we don't.

Italian media have published classified sections of an official US military inquiry into the accidental killing of an Italian agent in Baghdad.

A Greek medical student at Bologna University who was surfing the web early on Sunday found that with two simple clicks of his computer mouse he could restore censored portions of the report.

[Via Schneier on Security]

Comments

# girishb said on May 4, 2005 8:34 AM:

This is actually cool.

Now govt should simply get into the business of developing software for internal use(security reasons). Imagine the number of jobs it will create.

# girishb said on May 4, 2005 10:52 AM:

Hehe. It looks like just being in 'intelligence' does not make you that.