Since hundreds of people were involved the most likely explanation is incompetence

Once I worked for a company that got a quote in the form of a Word document. Turned out it had history turned on and quotes to competitors could be recovered.

There is a lot of incompitence when it comes to file formats.

	▲	vidarh 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		For one of my first jobs I negotiated a better offer because "strings" on the document revealed the previous offer they'd sent out, and made me confident I could ask for more. Though, makes me wonder if someone has intentionally sent out offers like that with lower numbers to make people think they're outsmarting them.

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wkat4242 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm sure not all those hundreds have been involved with every document.

I'm kinda surprised (and disappointed) nobody has done a Snowden on it though.

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locknitpicker an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Since hundreds of people were involved the most likely explanation is incompetence

Hundreds of people might be involved, but the only key factor required for a single point of failure to propagate to the deliverable is lack of verification.

And God knows how the Trump administration is packed with inexperiente incompetents assigned to positions where they are way way over their head, and routinely commit the most basic mistakes.

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ndsipa_pomu 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Having lots of people involved means that it's more likely to be malicious compliance or deniable sabotage. It only needs one person who disagrees with the redactions to start doing things that they know will allow info to leak.