BACKGROUND:
As reported by the Daily Mail, secret plans for a suite of enhanced weapons, potentially for use by Britain’s Special Forces, have been revealed in an astonishing new security blunder by defence officials. Details of research into the next generation of munitions appeared to have been safely redacted in a document marked ‘Official Sensitive’ and posted on a Government website.
But The Mail on Sunday revealed that simply by copying and pasting the text, every blanked-out detail can be read. The Ministry of Defence last night said it was taking action to correct the security breach after the Mail alerted officials to the blunder.
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