Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Geeze that article is just, well, moronic.

NPR blames the bloggers and calls them "pesky" and "amoral" because they posted a fucking PDF with the content blacked out. "Amoral"!. Shut the hell up, of course people are going to read the document you posted and comment on the "security" measures therein. Did these bloggers jeapordize any security or did the jackasses that delivered the "redacted" report in PDF form cause the alleged harm (I would argue that the report doesnt really put anything in danger, thats a separate issue but instead its a great example of bullshit security measures the we require "secrecy" for, sure names should have been left out but what else in ther e is a security revelation worth hiding?).

"soon discovered if they downloaded the document from npr.org and translated it into another format, the edited portions could be restored."

Another format? Its not like this took a rocket surgeon, you use that great hackers tool called "Acrobat Reader" and you "save as text".

Hell they could hire a monkey, much less someone who has a "clue about computers" and do a better job of keeping things "secure" than that.

The bigger question in all of this though is why did the defense department provide the document to a news outlet in PDF form (assuming they did - they had to provide it in some form that was stupid and had the clear text, reader cant make the text appear - the original provided report is the real issue).