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COMMENTS: Redactions Hacked
ABC's Brian Ross and CBS' Bob Orr both picked up on the 93-page manual for screening passengers at airline terminals posted online by the Transportation Security Administration as part of a request for contract bids. CBS' Orr noted that each page carried the disclaimer: "Warning! This record contains sensitive security information. No part may be disclosed without a need to know." To keep the secret parts secret, the TSA had redacted passages with a blacked-out overstrike. "With a few key strokes bloggers were able to quickly remove the black," ABC's Ross explained. The redactions would have been hackproof by using "a simple black magic marker instead of a fancy computer program," Ross shrugged.
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