MoD's Error Leaks Secrets of UK Nuclear Submarine 248
Tasha26 writes "UK's Ministry of Defence admitted that secret information about its nuclear powered submarines was leaked on the internet by mistake. A 'technical error' (i.e. turning the background colour of certain text to black) meant that sensitive blacked-out parts of the online MoD report could be read by anyone who copy-pasted it into another document. This accidental leak reveals, among many other things, how easy it would be to cause a Fukushima-style reactor meltdown in a sub, and details of measures used by the US Navy to protect its own nuclear submarines."
Re:It's not the user's fault (Score:5, Funny)
The other day the administrator in my department was organising a project to electronically sign all documents. Thats how they describe it anyway. They are going to scan a bunch of written signatures and paste them in to the documents which are "signed". There will be a directory (sorry, "folder") full of signatures to choose from.
Re:Avoid the Tsunamis (Score:5, Funny)
Not if they are full of leaks.
Re:Fukushima-style? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:People Are Stupid (Score:2, Funny)
while your quite correct in theory, one must remember that if your average your still and idiot to begin with.
the "average" person isn't smart enough to understand the difference in words like redaction , deletion and blackout.
Or, say..., "your" and "you're".
Re:It's not the user's fault (Score:5, Funny)
Re:People Are Stupid (Score:3, Funny)
YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN!
Importance of sub warefare against Taliban (Score:2, Funny)
I think these nuclear subs are well worth the expense. How else will Britain deal with Taliban aircraft carriers?