Internet + Incompetence: a Sweet Combination
Sep 25
Earlier this week, the FIA published the hearings relative to the Ferrari-McLaren spy issue on the ‘Net.
For those of you who really couldn’t care two hoots about Formula One Racing, let’s just say that the wife of an engineer employed by team A (McLaren) was caught in a copy-shop while… copying a confidential 700+ page technical document belonging to team B (Ferrari).
After a few squeaks from team B, team A was finally fined a whopping €100’000’000 and was disqualified from this year’s F1 constructors championship (which is rather awkward as it is one of the two major trophies these gentlemen compete for). Find out more here if you really need to.
The reason for this post?
Someone obviously didn’t do their homework and commited EXACTLY the same mistake as previously mentioned on this blog: the “sensitive bits” such as people’s salaries, or worse even technical information about team B’s car (which thus became available for EVERYONE) were, yet again, censored by blacking them out in the published PDF document.
Such as:
By simply copying the text in Adobe Reader and pasting it into your notepad, this is what you get:
Brilliant eh? 
So basically, Ferrari’s cars are based on a double-rear master cylinder with a spring. Got that?
Just don’t tell anyone you read it here….
Oh: and just in case, here are the two offending documents which were “rapidly” removed from the web.
Hier klicken!
now,I am frantically thinking of ways how I can prevent hubby from getting onto your site,clicking on all the links and getting lost for hours:)
No seriously now,luckily his english knowledge doesn’t go much further than Hello and good bye
He is an avid F1 fan and I sometimes think he must have been raised on petrol and not milk:) come tomorrow he’ll be setting the alarm clock to 6am (on a SUNDAY!) and will watch the race in Japan………..
6am? Jeez… Luckily enough I am the proud owner of one those recording thingies: you simply enter the start and end time of your recording, set the channel and that’s it… Don’t even need to insert a VHS tape either!
There’s NO WAY I would be motivated to get up at THAT time on a Sunday to watch a race….