No doubt because the step was covered with paper and scotch tape.
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The rooms are known as secure compartmentalized information facilities, or SKIFs.
Iām not doubting the story overall, but it troubles me that the author can write out Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility and then proceed to initialize it with a āKā multiple times.
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Lest we forget.
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There are any number of old regulations that specify that requests be submitted āOn official letterhead,ā as if that implied any level of authentication in this day and age.
Actually, my guess is that the workflow went something like thisā¦
Low Level Flunky copies the document gives it to the Document Reviewer and puts the origial back in storageā¦ DR scans through the document and applies paper. DR give the document to LLF and says that āiām done reviewing this.ā He means that heās finished the actual thinking part of the process, after all operating a xerox machine is a job for LLF. But what LLF understands that to mean is "this is ready to ship.
Iāve been using āKā as an abbreviation for āconstantā for so many years that it genuinely surprises me when I do it while teaching and my students call me on it.
Weāre adorable!
Please do not remove this Post-It.
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Waitā¦ Ramsey?
I think itās more likely someone elided the originals, made careful xeroxes, and then accidentally mailed the wrong pile
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The US did the equivalent with electronic documents for a while until there was a published guideline and widespread trainingā¦
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The guidelines are still left to interpretation. You can get a lot of info by comparing a single document redacted by 2 different people.
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On the up side, the next time someone redacts a PDF by putting an opaque box over text, weāll have a great simile to explain why that doesnāt work
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