Classified Calipari report can be read by copy/pasting

[R00k]

LOL. The report on the killing of Italian intelligence officer Calipari was finally released. Apparently a lot of the report - around a third - was redacted and classified.

According to Slashdot, the Italians got the report and found that they could read the redacted/classified portions simply by copying the text in the .pdf, and pasting it into Word. :lol:

The Italian site that points it out:
http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cron ... ssis.shtml

Google-translated link to it:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... uage_tools

And the full, readable document in Word format:
http://www.corriere.it/Media/Documenti/Unclassified.doc

Jesus what a bunch of stooges. :lol:
I haven't read the report yet, but I have to wonder what might be in there that they wouldn't want the Italians and general public to read, aside from soldiers' personal information.

[inphlict]

:icon19: what a bunch of morons, I don't feel like reading it all can you tell us a bit about it.

[Survivor]

More importantly, while sworn statements were provided by all the key U.S. personnel involved in the incident, the Italian personnel provided only unsworn statements as they are not required under Italian law to swear to statements until appearing before a judge.

[4days]

html version:
http://213.160.111.174/unclassified.htm

A vdiff between the censored and unmasked versions suggests that much of what was redacted is operational details, such as:

* An itemization of IEDs and VBIEDs deployment techniques which have been most effective,
* An analysis of the tactical strengths and weaknesses of specific checkpoints along "Route Irish",
* Combat readiness assesment of the units and soldiers involved,
* A detailed description of how the checkpoint is laid out,
* Exact grid locations of various assets.
* Details of how checkpoint searches are set up and executed
* Details of how checkpoints are expected to deal with approaching vehicles, including threat assesment methods.
* A statistical analysis of "normal" traffic approaching the checkpoint.

It names the soldiers involved and details the specific actions taken by those soldiers. It names the soldier who killed Calipari.

It briefly describes U.S. Embassy procedures for transporting VIPs along Route Irish and in general.

It details movement of U.S. and Italian Embassy personnel.

It describes possible future procedures and configurations for checkpoints.

In other words it has a lot of information of potential use to an insurgent mission planner and a lot that is nobody's business.

quoted from the comments at slashdot.

it's funny to read that someone thought drawing on a pdf would permanently obscure text, that there were obviously no other security measures taken with it beyond that and that there's a precedent for it (the exact same failure to understand what a pdf is with an earlier censored document) - but that guy's got a point, how responsible is it to be publishing the document?

[R00k]

Yes, if that's the kind of information that was redacted, then I'd agree it's very irresponsible to be publishing it.

Most of all it's Washington's stupidity for not knowing how to properly conceal the information. I mean, how long have they been releasing partially-classified documents now?

This thing's all over the internet now, but I'm wondering if maybe I should remove all the links - even though it's already been Slashdotted.... What do you guys think?

[4days]

like you say it's all over the place, no sense worrying about it.

cribbing from slashdot again, but here's a blast from the past.

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/51

america :lol: