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FBI agent tries to copyright torture manual, inadvertently makes it public
- warfangle 13y agoOriginal non-blogspam article: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/fbi-copyrighted-interrogation-manual-unredacted-secrets http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/fbi-copyrighted-...
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoI would not be so quick to assign incompetent label to the agent in question. Is it possible that this is form of civil disobedience?
- otoburb 13y agoPlausible deniability is always best in situations like this.
- loceng 13y agoI wonder will happen to this individual who copyrighted the material under his name.
- iconjack 13y agoI wonder why Mother Jones went to so much trouble to not mention his name.
- MPetitt 13y agoMy two questions now are, 1. Is there an uncensored version online yet? 2. If there is not, does anyone know if I am allowed to go down to the library of congress and scan/photograph the contents (If so, I live close by and can go do it tonight/tomorrow).
- cshenoy 13y agoFrom the Mother Jones article: Because the two versions are similar, a side-by-side comparison allows a reader to deduce what was redacted in the later version. The copyright office does not allow readers to take pictures or notes, but during a brief inspection, a few redactions stood out.
- MPetitt 13y agoWell shit, anyone else have any ideas? Depending on how strict they are with stalking or watching you I think typing things up on my phone wouldn't be to difficult to do nonchalantly.
- ryderm 13y agoGoogle Glass.
- existencebox 13y agoGet a hundred people in there to each memorize a page :)
- MPetitt 13y agoHacker news DC Meetup: Library of Congress - Torture Section
- MPetitt 13y agoBRB getting $2000
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- throwaway9174 13y agoI think an important question is whether the version in the LOC is the real version. Since there are so many red flags, it would make a good deal of sense that they simply placed a watered down version of the material in the LOC for a "lucky" reporter to find and take the heat off them. Basically, this version is a sensitive detector for describing government wrongdoing, but it is not specific - it doesn't prove that certain forms of wrongdoing were not in the training manual.
- rubbingalcohol 13y agoThat's assuming the government is "smart" and nothing they've done recently would actually indicate they are smart.
- dsugarman 13y agoAnyone have a link to information contained in the manual?
- Splendor 13y agoIt seems like that will be hard to come by since "the copyright office does not allow readers to take pictures or notes". All we seem to have are the rememberings of those who've been in to see it.
- nswanberg 13y agoDo the redacted parts have the interrogator ask algorithm and data structure questions to a person led to believe they would only be asked about html and javascript features?
- tibbon 13y agoYet... I can't seem to find a link to it? Wouldn't mind reading.
- mercurial 13y agoFlamebait title. Where is the torture in this "torture manual"? Maybe a better title would be: Submitter editorializes title for more clicks, makes it to the front page.
- JacobIrwin 13y agoURL to non-redacted version?