Saudi Arabia accused of modifying official Cop29 negotiating text | News of changes to usually non-editable document ‘risks placing climate summit in jeopardy'
Saudi Arabia accused of modifying official Cop29 negotiating text | News of changes to usually non-editable document ‘risks placing climate summit in jeopardy'
Exclusive: News of changes to usually non-editable document ‘risks placing climate summit in jeopardy'
Yikes. These people have no concept of operational security, if they think sending something as PDF prevents it from being edited.
28Implying it wasn't already a fucking joke
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10imagine watching over Cop29 and thinking it wasn't empty and performative enough
9I 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.
5Not gonna suggest github because you know Microsoft, but you get the idea.
1No 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.
7In 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.
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