AT&T Leaks Sensitive Info in NSA Suit
In another twist in the ongoing saga that is the NSA eavesdropping lawsuit, it appears that AT&T bungled a legal brief by including sensitive information that was blocked out but which can be easily read by some PDF readers.
AT&T’s attorneys this week filed a 25-page legal brief striped with thick black lines that were intended to obscure portions of three pages and render them unreadable.
But the obscured text nevertheless can be copied and pasted inside some PDF readers, including Preview under Apple Computer’s OS X and the xpdf utility used with X11.
The information unintentionally released in the brief is not classified nor does it explain anything about the NSA’s eavesdropping program. Another chapter in this odd battle between the EFF and AT&T/USA.
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