Information Security News: Leave it to the New York Times to screw up your life. (fwd)

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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]

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