Lack of Intelligence Reveals U.S. Intelligence Secrets Through MS Powerpoint
by DJ Neawedde | 9th June 2007
It’s not the first time that official secrets have been lost because of the volatile mixture of stupidity and technology, and it sure won’t be the last. Terri Everett of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence gave a Powerpoint presentation which was also hosted online, unfortunately some data behind his pie charts revealed rather more than intended. Writer R.J. Hillhouse found that she could open the chart object and extract the numbers from within. The result is that she, (and all of us, thanks to her blog) now know that the budget of the 16 US intelligence agencies is 25% more than previously thought - $60 billion. :: Slate
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It’s amazing the little things technology can do to reveal the truth.
June 10th, 2007 at 10:12 am
We live in a supposed Democracy and yet the way we find out how bulbous our government has become is through their idiotic mistakes in Powerpoint. DEAR GOD…
June 10th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Thank g0d for Microsoft Office products.
June 10th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
So now what do we do about it?
June 10th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
[…] First, consider the case of a Powerpoint presentation from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence: Terri Everett of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence gave a Powerpoint presentation which was also hosted online, unfortunately some data behind his pie charts revealed rather more than intended. Writer R.J. Hillhouse found that she could open the chart object and extract the numbers from within. The result is that she, (and all of us, thanks to her blog) now know that the budget of the 16 US intelligence agencies is 25% more than previously thought - $60 billion. […]
June 12th, 2007 at 8:18 am
[…] Jei norite sužinoti visas JAV gynybos sitemos paslaptis, visiškai nebūti infiltruoti žvalgų. Tereikia patikrinti, ar viešai pateikiami PowerPoint failai tebeturi saitus su duomenų baze ir sužinoti, pavyzdžiui, slaptas 16 JAV žvalgybos tarnybų biudžetas yra 60 milijardų dolerių. […]
June 12th, 2007 at 11:00 am