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Someone posted the Screening Management Standard Operating Procedures manual of the TSA on a pubic web server last week. It was a PDF, and whoever made the PDF thought they had redacted it, but they screwed up: they pasted black rectangles over sensitive text instead of deleting it, and as MANY organizations such as AT&T have learned, that conceals but does not remove information. All you have to do to recover the info is basically copy and paste into another document.
Thus, all the hidden information was revealed!
This document details everything about how airport security checkpoints are to be operated, including operating the x-ray machine, calibrating said machine, which countries receive automatic additional screenings, etc.
Several stories have come out about this, so here's a few:
Here's the original story on Wired: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/tsa-leak/
Here's the original story on Slashdot, along with a link to a zip of the file with the redactions recovered: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/12/08/0057253/TSAs-Sloppy-Redacting-Reveals-All?art_pos=15
Apparently five people have been suspended pending further investigation in to the leak. Amongst the interesting attempts at butt-covering as the statement that this version of the manual was from May/June 2008 and has been superseded.
Well, if it's been superseded, why are three Congresscritters asking for explanations from the TSA as to how this happened, and can they sue web sites to get it off the intertubes? As it turns out, it's been released to Cryptome and Wikileaks, and is thus now all over the world. And yes, I have a copy, and it's moderately interesting reading.
Now, here's the beauty of the Congresscritters request: the document was posted on a web site in MARCH. It was discovered LAST SUNDAY. Which means it's been indexed/captured/cached by every search engine in existence.
Well, here's the Congresscritters pleas: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/tsa-leak-2
And here's Slashdot's thread on the Congresscritters pleas: http://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/12/11/1351208/Three-Lawmakers-Ask-For-Enforcement-Against-Leak-Sites?art_pos=4
I think that's enough silliness for now. I have some more silliness to post later, but it can wait.
Oh, I forgot. I meant to post a link to Cryptome: http://www.cryptome.org/. Some VERY interesting stuff on it! I've been reading a series posted by a former spy, neat stuff.
Thus, all the hidden information was revealed!
This document details everything about how airport security checkpoints are to be operated, including operating the x-ray machine, calibrating said machine, which countries receive automatic additional screenings, etc.
Several stories have come out about this, so here's a few:
Here's the original story on Wired: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/tsa-leak/
Here's the original story on Slashdot, along with a link to a zip of the file with the redactions recovered: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/12/08/0057253/TSAs-Sloppy-Redacting-Reveals-All?art_pos=15
Apparently five people have been suspended pending further investigation in to the leak. Amongst the interesting attempts at butt-covering as the statement that this version of the manual was from May/June 2008 and has been superseded.
Well, if it's been superseded, why are three Congresscritters asking for explanations from the TSA as to how this happened, and can they sue web sites to get it off the intertubes? As it turns out, it's been released to Cryptome and Wikileaks, and is thus now all over the world. And yes, I have a copy, and it's moderately interesting reading.
Now, here's the beauty of the Congresscritters request: the document was posted on a web site in MARCH. It was discovered LAST SUNDAY. Which means it's been indexed/captured/cached by every search engine in existence.
Well, here's the Congresscritters pleas: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/tsa-leak-2
And here's Slashdot's thread on the Congresscritters pleas: http://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/12/11/1351208/Three-Lawmakers-Ask-For-Enforcement-Against-Leak-Sites?art_pos=4
I think that's enough silliness for now. I have some more silliness to post later, but it can wait.
Oh, I forgot. I meant to post a link to Cryptome: http://www.cryptome.org/. Some VERY interesting stuff on it! I've been reading a series posted by a former spy, neat stuff.
