[Ipg-smz] Explosive Mueller controversy

[Scott Mace]

The original version of the Mueller report PDF wasn't searchable.

<https://qz.com/1601873/the-pdf-of-the-mueller-report-has-been-updated-to-be-more-accessible/>https://qz.com/1601873/the-pdf-of-the-mueller-report-has-been-updated-to-be-more-accessible/ 


"News organizations and Mueller fanatics 
<https://qz.com/1598991/read-a-searchable-version-of-the-mueller-report/>quickly 
addressed this problem by running the PDF through a process known as 
optical character recognition (OCR) to add searchable text to the document."

DOJ has now corrected this shortcoming in their version of the report.

Scott Mace

At 05:37 AM 4/19/2019, Stephen Satchell wrote:
>On 4/18/19 10:26 PM, David Needle wrote:
> > Also, the Report was delivered to Congress on ... CD-ROM!
> > https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/mueller-report-congress-cds.html
>
>In another story I read, that writer was trying to explain why the
>report was delivered on CD-ROM.  "Government offices still have working
>CD drives" is the line that stuck out.  What the author failed to
>realize that, as of today, many computers still ship with some sort of
>CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray drive, and those "quaint" CD-ROMs are easily read by
>this galazy of drive devices.  Outboard drives are readily available --
>I bought my Blu-Ray USB drive at Costco.
>
>The author did make a point that stirred some memories: legal discovery
>will substitute a CD-ROM disc for boxes of papers.  When I was required
>to tap an e-mail account as sysadmin at a web hosting company, I
>delivered my work product to the IRS on CD-ROM, complete with checksum
>information on the label and on a paper affidavit.  (Never heard from
>the IRS after that -- and that was more than 10 years ago.)
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