OOPSIE! ICE Fails To Properly Redact Document, Reveals Location Of Future 'Urban Warfare' Training Facility

[dal at riseup.net (Douglas Lucas)]

Redaction errors from .gov are surprisingly common.

The court reporter at Barrett Brown's first (of two) sentencing hearing
provided a transcript of that proceeding. The PDF included black
redaction squares censoring her transcribed text of two bench
conference.s All I had to do to liberate that text from redaction was
use the PDF program Okular: I clicked "Selection", highlighted the
redacted text, picked "Copy to clipboard", and pasted the clipboard
contents into a text editor.

Info here if anyone's curious -
http://douglaslucas.com/files/Unredacted_BBLOL_BenchConferences.html -
my article mentioned and linked is now no longer up at Revolution News,
but it is on Wayback Machine.

On 2019-09-11 20:40, Razer wrote:
> "The immigration agency had sought to redact the location of the new
> training facility, but failed to do so properly. The agency, which has
> made this kind of mistake previously, appears to have a systemic
> information-security problem.
> 
> In this case, Newsweek was able to simply copy and paste the
> document's contents into a word processor and quickly establish that
> the facility would be built at the Office of Firearms and Tactical
> Programs' (OFTP) Tactical Operations Complex (TOC) at Fort Benning,
> Georgia, a U.S. Army post used to prepare soldiers for combat.
> 
> In addition to revealing Fort Benning as the location of the training
> site, ICE also failed to properly redact information indicating that
> the Army post would be getting an expansion, with up to 50 buildings
> expected to be added to the site.
> 
> "A Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) vehicle will be competed among GSA
> Federal Supply Schedule holders for additional training buildings and
> interior/exterior outfitting in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 20,"
> ICE states in a portion it did not attempt to redact from the
> document.
> 
> In a following partially redacted line, it states: "OFTP plans to
> expand the Training Site at Ft. Benning to include up to 50 additional
> buildings and add additional U.S. city layouts and designs."
> Throughout the document, areas that were meant to be withheld were not
> redacted properly, including signature lines at the bottom of the
> document. Instead of names, these would-be redacted lines contain what
> appears to be placeholders, such as "ijunynyhhjhjhjjjjjjj,"
> "hnjumgfrdddfffffff" and "BHMKKOOOOOO."
> 
> ICE's new training facility is expected to include,"at a minimum," a
> "multitude of basic, intermediate and hyper-realistic training
> devices, a tactical training warehouse, classroom facilities and
> vehicle assault training area."
> 
> Among those training devices will be a "hyper-realistic props/design"
> that simulates "residential houses, apartments, hotels, government
> facilities and commercial buildings," along with other training
> configurations.
> 
> ICE is specifically interested in acquiring a "Chicago" style replica,
> as well as an "Arizona" style replica, with the agency expecting to
> dedicate a total estimated value of $961,347.75 to the effort."
> 
> More, including Dox, at NewsWeek:
> https://www.newsweek.com/ice-fails-redact-document-reveals-location-urban-warfare-training-facility-1458732
> Rr
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