Blowup na era dos píxeis

On June 16, 2000, the New York Times published on its Web site PDF files of a secret CIA report:

"CLANDESTINE SERVICE HISTORY, OVERTHROW OF PREMIER MOSSADEQ OF IRAN, November 1952-August 1953," an operation planned and executed by the CIA and British SIS:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html


Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 23:26:31 -0400
From: Dave Emery
To: intelforum@his.com
Subject: Re: The NYT CIA Report

On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:13:10PM -0400, John Young wrote:

> We read the CIA report on the overthrow of Mossadeq from
> the New York Times site on a slow computer. When page 54
> loaded we saw a block of text an instant before it was blacked
> out. We backed up and loaded it again, with the same result:
> a flash of the redacted text.
>
That is extremely stupid. The fact you saw the text means that
anyone using a html capture utility to query the site and record the
html source of the page to a file should trivially be able to remove the
redactions with an ordinary text editor or no doubt many kinds of html
specific editors. The text of the redacted stuff must perforce be
included in the clear as plain old marked up ascii as it could not have
been momentarily displayed as something readible otherwise.

Someone was either trying to leak material to the world
deliberately or was completely incompetant. And I mean completely...