Read all the deleted parts
Oh dear, there will be some unhappy people.
Over on the Government’s Digital Strategy site, there is a press release about the setting up of “a new digital and community sector representative body for the benefits of all those people with information and communications technology (ICT) needs”.
Now the PR also refers to a linked cabinet paper in pdf form. It notes:
Some items in this cabinet paper has been removed because it refers to financial or other sensitive information.
Now I did read the PR because it is in an area of interest to me (and incidentally I am pretty supportive of the Government’s initiatives in this area), but didn’t read the cabinet paper at first. If you do look at it there are well over two dozen paragraphs blanked out.
But a smart wee thing has read the paper and sent an e-mail pointing out that it seems all the Government has done is change the font to white. So if you either highlight the text in your pdf reader or copy it to Word and highlight it with a dark colour, all the”deleted” text suddenly appears, and hey presto you have the full Cabinet paper.
I hope the Government applies the same censorship techniques to all its documents. The Budget papers especially would be great like this!
Hat Tip: Simon Lyall
November 21st, 2007 at 2:22 am
I’m running down to the TAB. They’re taking bets on whether this will be fixed by lunchtime
November 21st, 2007 at 2:22 am
Or, if you prefer, whether the “deleted” parts will be gone by lunchtime
November 21st, 2007 at 5:47 am
The anoying thing is that when I wrote this up last night I couldn’t seen anything really juicy in the hidden text apart from a line about National Library and SSC consider the timeframe for establishing the new body is “ambitious.”
November 21st, 2007 at 7:19 am
ah the famous “ambitious”, this is up there with “courageous” in the mandarin lexicon.
What it actually means is that it will be rushed, half assed, won’t work and we will have to spend squillions fixing it later, but when you come looking for someone to blame you can’t say you havent been warned.
November 21st, 2007 at 7:34 am
Another reason not to trust this Government with our vital telecommunications network, they can’t even publish a PDF document correctly.
November 21st, 2007 at 7:51 am
Has it gone already? I would have liked to have seen that, but can’t find it on the link DPF gave.
November 21st, 2007 at 8:43 am
Yes they have taken it down. But copies of the pdf are flying around the country by e-mail. if it was more interesting I’d stick a copy up here.
November 21st, 2007 at 9:08 am
Priceless as they say. Sounds like the governments digital strategy deparment could prove to be fertile recruiting grounds for the SIS.