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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

I am reminded of that one guy who retyped an entire credit card agreement with clauses in his favour, formatted it to look like the original, then signed it and sent it back.

But at that point the stories diverge because he got away with quite a lot of "abuse" before they cancelled his card... and were required to pay his cancellation fee.

... or do they, because this Cop29 story seems to suggest that the Saudis have not only done this in the past, but they've been given secret permission to do so.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yikes. These people have no concept of operational security, if they think sending something as PDF prevents it from being edited.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 20 points 1 day ago

"I set the read only flag on the file. What more do you expect me to do?!"

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 day ago

It's not "I sent it as a pdf" but "I gave edit access to the master copy to somebody who shouldn't have had it"

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But I used the password "P@55w0rd1"!!!

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just use P155w0rd as my password. No one guesses it

[–] Mannimarco@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Implying it wasn't already a fucking joke

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 1 day ago

imagine watching over Cop29 and thinking it wasn't empty and performative enough

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago
[–] solrize@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not gonna suggest github because you know Microsoft, but you get the idea.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No type of source control helps when the people who control access are giving it to people who shouldn't have it. Think of it as the github workspace admin giving out accounts to malicious individuals.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

In git terms, it sounds like the Saudi delegate added some commits to HEAD. But if they really used git, that wouldn't have affected the release branch.