Documents posted online recently by both the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and HSBC have been incorrectly redacted, allowing readers to access the complete files.

“Blacked-out portions of a TSA document on screening techniques could be reversed by a simple cut-and-paste operation on supposedly sensitive portions of a PDF document,” writes The Register’s John Leyden. “Security through obscurity is seldom the greatest idea, so maybe it’s just as well that the TSA’s Screening Management Standard Operating Procedure is now publicly available.”

“Meanwhile, HSBC blamed software bugs for failing to properly redact sensitive data from electronically-filed bankruptcy proceedings involving U.S. customers,” Leyden adds.

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