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Leave it to the New York Times to screw up your life. (fwd)
From: cult hero <jericho () ATTRITION ORG>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 15:03:18 -0600
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <anonymous> Courtesy of RISKS Digest. Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 12:00:33 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Subject: *The NYT* site exposes CIA agents A freedom of information activist plans to publish online a classified CIA document that was pulled from *The New York Times'* site after newspaper officials learned it exposed the identities of Iranians involved in the 1953 U.S. and British-backed coup that overthrew Iran's elected officials. *The Times* used the graphic to accompany an article detailing the coup. In a technical glitch, those who visited the Times website on June 16 were able to read the names of the agents when they downloaded the graphic. *The Times* put a layer of black boxes over the names in the 200-page Portable Document Format file, allowing viewers who "froze" the page while it was being downloaded to read the names underneath. [Wired News Report, 23 Jun 2000, http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37205,00.html] ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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