[Infowarrior] - Fwd: TSA releases screening manual with unredacted redactions

[Richard Forno]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org>
> Date: December 7, 2009 7:00:22 AM EST
> To: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster at gmail.com>, Richard Forno <rforno at infowarrior.org 
> >, Dave Farber <dave at farber.net>
> Subject: TSA releases screening manual with unredacted redactions
>
> (via BoingBoing)
>
> 	The TSA makes another stupid move
> 	http://www.wanderingaramean.com/2009/12/tsa-makes-another-stupid-move.html
>
> Excerpt:
>
> 	So the decision to publish it on the Internet is probably a
> 	questionable one. On top of that, however, is where the real
> 	idiocy shines. They chose to publish a redacted version of
> 	the document, hiding all the super-important stuff from the
> 	public. But they apparently don't understand how redaction works
> 	in the electronic document world. See, rather than actually
> 	removing the offending text from the document they just drew
> 	a black box on top of it.  Turns out that PDF documents don't
> 	really care about the black box like that and the actual content
> 	of the document is still in the file.
>
> 	Yup, their crack legal staff managed to screw this one up pretty
> 	badly.  Want to know which twelve passports will instantly get
> 	you shunted over for secondary screening, simply by showing them
> 	to the ID-checking agent? Check out Section 2A-2 (C) (1) (b)
> 	(iv).  Want to know the procedure for CIA-escorted passengers
> 	to be processed through the checkpoint? That's in the document,
> 	too;  Details on the calibration process of the metal detectors is
> 	in there. So is the procedure for screening foreign dignitaries.
>
>
> Document mirror:
>
> 	http://cryptome.org/tsa-screening.zip
>
> ---Rsk
>