Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified Documents
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 30 April 2005
In March, U.S. troops in Iraq shot to death Nicola Calipari, the Italian intelligence agent that rescued the kidnapped journalist Giuliana Sgrena. U.S. commission on the incident produced a report which public version was censored for more than one third. Now Italian press is reporting that all confidential information in the report is available to the public, just by copying "hidden" text from the PDF and pasting it in a word processor (Italian). The uncensored report can now be directly downloaded (evil .DOC format, sorry)
The creator of the PDF will beat his head against the wall. What do you know, perhaps they will sue the guy who pointed that out and accuse him of "hacking"; I bet under the DMCA something like this is possible.