It wasn't an "extraordinary computer gaffe". It was a standard Microsoft feature. Microsoft is a very talented company, but they just do not take computer security seriously.

Microsoft is a very talented company, but they just do not take computer security seriously.

http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/pages/sg_biography.html

**"The first Secretary-General to be elected from the ranks of United Nations staff,**

I think I found your answer.

"completed his undergraduate work in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A., in 1961. From 1961 to 1962, he undertook graduate studies in economics at the Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales in Geneva."

No surprises here.

what dark secrets dose the UN have to hide? whats churning up in the UN building there in NYC? what kind of skelletons dose KOFFI ANNAN have in his closet?

As I said over at my shitty site, that damn "Track Changes' deal-io causes more problems than anyone imagines, including at the Pentagon.

Usually, it's just embarassing, rather than in the case of the Syria report, where it's humiliating AND illuminating at the same time.

Geez, people-- understand your software. F'ing amateurs.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

The way they ... *surround* the Kofi.

Has there ever been a more corrupt piece of shit...?

I'm no fan of Kofi's, but that Kurt Waldheim guy was a pretty spectacularly unsavory item...

"Has there ever been a more corrupt piece of shit than Kofi Annan?"

Agnew?
That congressman videotaped stuffing bundles of money into his pockets in the 80s?

Good times.

...and this is why all of Monty's private correspondence is done in EMACS and written to an encrypted loopback device using a 1024-bit asymmetrical algorithm, and then stored on a USB memory stick which is then buried under a load of toxic plutonium waste in a desert site in Nevada.

I may not be able to retrieve my naughty site passwords when I want them, but the point is tha tno one else can either.

EMACS is for heathens. EMACS is a trap, luring users astray as they follow the long the long hard road from WYSIWYG GUI editors to vim, the chosen editor. Our own Monty, an EMACS user. I never would have thought such a thing could be possible.
:q!

I see no mention of a Faraday cage, Monty.

The government's been reading your memoirs all along.

anon:

vim/vi/elvis/foobarvim/etc.

Well, you're clearly a masochist, so why not go the whole way and just use ed? Or just manually 'cat' characters onto the end of a text file? Or use hexedit to manually input hexadecimal characters into a memory buffer that you then manually dd onto a raw disk partition?

A poet and sci-fi geek I be, verily, but a Unix nerd first and above all.

Yep, the UN is a foul place. But they manage to make themselves even more hatable by copping a sanctimonious, morally superior attitide while being utterly amoral in practice. Putting on airs that they are utterly indispensible when they are eminently dispensable in reality. If they UN disappeared tomorrow, who would notice?

The UN has lots of dirty secrects its trying to hide and KOFFI ANNAN has some skelletons in his closet