Mashable caught the drop on this big news story. Joost has accidently leaked 3 months worth of deals that are in the works via a Powerpoint presentation that was converted to PDF.

Frantic Industries has the quick and dirty as to how this happened. The person developing the presentation placed text boxes on top of other text, rather than deleting the original text. When this presentation was converted to PDF, the convertor saw this hidden text, placed in on the page, then placed the new text on top of it. Visually, they look the same - but when you copy-paste, you copy all of the text on the page - including the hidden data.

A similar incident led to a change in Department of Defense policies, when a declassified document was released. The document had been red-acted by placing black boxes over sensitive data, unfortunately the copy-paste trick worked like a charm and you could view the complete document. After that incident, the Department of Defense enforces a “physical red-act” policy, where the document must be printed, physically red-acted with a pen, and then scanned as a PDF.

Techquila Shots has the full text of the Joost document for your reading pleasure. To be honest, there’s no a whole lot that is interesting in here apart from a few deals in the works with Warner Brothers, the NHL, Red Bull, etc.