Unredacted TSA Manual Posted on WikiLeaks
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Apparently the legal staff at the Transportation Security Administration are as clueless and inept as the guys who search you at the airport. The TSA released a manual for flight and other screening procedures and thought they had done a knock-up job on redacting certain sensitive areas. Problem is they attempted to do this with a PDF editor and blew it big time. Instead of printing the document and marking out the areas by hand, they merely placed black boxes over the text in the editor. :wtf: Call it laziness or stupidity. Either way, the boxes were easily defeated because they are not part of the document. Even a sixth grader with rudimentary knowledge of Acrobat or other PDF editors knows this. http://88.80.16.63/leak/tsa-screening-procedures-2008.pdf[^] At any rate, the document reveals a few things the feds don’t want us to know. For instance, Section 2A-2 (C) (1) (b) (iv) addresses which twelve passports will instantly get you moved to secondary screening. Other juicy details include the procedure for CIA-escorted passengers to be processed and the calibration process of airport metal detectors. All good stuff al-Qaeda would want to know – that is if they actually existed. http://www.infowars.com/unredacted-tsa-manual-posted-on-wikileaks/[^]
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Apparently the legal staff at the Transportation Security Administration are as clueless and inept as the guys who search you at the airport. The TSA released a manual for flight and other screening procedures and thought they had done a knock-up job on redacting certain sensitive areas. Problem is they attempted to do this with a PDF editor and blew it big time. Instead of printing the document and marking out the areas by hand, they merely placed black boxes over the text in the editor. :wtf: Call it laziness or stupidity. Either way, the boxes were easily defeated because they are not part of the document. Even a sixth grader with rudimentary knowledge of Acrobat or other PDF editors knows this. http://88.80.16.63/leak/tsa-screening-procedures-2008.pdf[^] At any rate, the document reveals a few things the feds don’t want us to know. For instance, Section 2A-2 (C) (1) (b) (iv) addresses which twelve passports will instantly get you moved to secondary screening. Other juicy details include the procedure for CIA-escorted passengers to be processed and the calibration process of airport metal detectors. All good stuff al-Qaeda would want to know – that is if they actually existed. http://www.infowars.com/unredacted-tsa-manual-posted-on-wikileaks/[^]
CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
Instead of printing the document and marking out the areas by hand,
Well, I would hope a sixth grader with rudimentary knowledge of Acrobat or other PDF editors would also know that it is possible to consolidate edits into a document. It is apparent that the authors of this post are as clueless and inept as the legal staff at the TSA.
CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
Call it laziness or stupidity.
No, it is merely ignorance.
Bob Emmett