FBI Wiretapping Audit Secrets Uncovered Via Ctrl+C 231
mytrip notes a story in Wired's Threat Level blog on the latest boneheaded government moves with redaction. (We've been discussing redaction follies here for years.) This time it's an FBI report (PDF) on implementing CALEA — you can select text from redacted areas, copy it, and paste into a text editor, as University of Pennsylvania professor Matt Blaze discovered. From Wired: "Once again, supposedly sensitive information blacked out from a government report turns out to be visible by computer experts armed with the Ctrl+C keys — and that information turns out to be not very sensitive after all... [Among] the tidbits considered too sensitive to be aired publicly: The FBI paid Verizon $2,500 apiece to upgrade 1,140 old telephone switches. Oddly the report didn't redact the total amount paid to the telecom — slightly more than $2.9 million dollars — but somehow the bad guys will win if they knew the number of switches and the cost paid."
Let me guess... (Score:4, Funny)
<FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: black">Top Secret!</FONT>
Too much UNIX for me (Score:5, Funny)
The headline and summary made took a minute for me to grasp, I just couldn't understand how you could get data out of something by halting execution.
Then my brain woke up and I realized they were thinking of the Windows command Ctrl+C which copies the marked text..
/Mikael
Re:It's easy... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Let me guess... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let me guess... (Score:5, Funny)
I wanted it to be realistic
Re:Too much UNIX for me (Score:5, Funny)
Right. Me too. I don't use windows, so I think Ctrl+C == SIGINT.
I saw a similar thing on another article here where they had Ctrl+Z in the article, and that took me a minute to figure out as well. I thought, WTF does suspending a task have to do with anything??? I then had to figure out that Ctrl+Z is the undo command in windows.
Re:Who's responsible..? (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently you have never worked for a government department.
Otherwise it's like having a flu vaccine released by managers that went nowhere near an immunologist or virologist.
or in the pharmaceutical industry.
Re:Too much UNIX for me (Score:5, Funny)
Welcome To FBI Info Booth.
Please press:
1 to open contact form
2 to learn about the organization
3 to get the latest news
4 to access the current most wanted list
5 to access other FBI resources
Your choice: _ [ctrl+C]
Terminated.
root@booth975.fbi.gov# cat
Re:LOL! (Score:4, Funny)
The official method is:
1 - Print the document.
2 - Cut the private parts away with a cutter.
3 - If you've not castrated yourself, you should have a paper with holes. Put it in a wooden table.
4 - Make a photo of said table.
5 - Load the photo in a power point.
6 - publish the ppt file.
Re:It's easy... (Score:3, Funny)
---TOP SECRET--- "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."
Re:Copy & Paste Reveals FBI Wiretapping Audit (Score:4, Funny)
Re:LOL! (Score:2, Funny)
You idiots... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sheesh (Score:3, Funny)
Is there a way to satisfy you? Jeesh...