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Do these documents ever get unredacted? Because I want to read this document so badly.

rlanday 10y ago
From the article: “Michaels said the information was withheld pending a determination on whether it is covered by a confidentiality agreement. It is possible that that portion of the complaint — which appears to contain a detailed account of Pompliano’s brief tenure at Snapchat — could become public.”
- randycupertino 10y ago
  " It is possible that that portion of the complaint — which appears to contain a detailed account of Pompliano’s brief tenure at Snapchat — could become public.” Sounds like a thinly veiled threat to strongarm Snapchat into a quick $ettlement.
  - madgar 10y ago
    A threat by whom? The American legal system? The sentence before the one you quoted explained the straightforward legal process by which unredaction may be authorized. A judge decides if this is officially released. Not the plaintiff.
    - smileysteve 10y ago
      It doesn't make it to the judge if it settles quickly.
      - madgar 10y ago
        I guess by that definition, literally all legal processes in US civil court are "thinly veiled threats". Which might be a fair perspective, but I think OP should point that perspective out ahead of time in the future. Maybe by instead writing something like this: "Like every engagement with the legal system, this sounds like a thinly veiled threat..." Being explicit makes clear that one thinks that it isn't anything specific to the case that makes it a threat - it's just the fact that the legal system has been invoked.
TheSageMage 10y ago
Right? I was wondering if it would be possible to build something to guess what these redacted lines(at least for the not-8-page-part) say. Since they redact mid-sentence, could you calculate the font size, estimate how many characters there are, and fill in some common words using an NLP based implementation? Or would the sheer volume/complexity be too much?
- asher_ 10y ago
  http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/business/technology-researchers-develop-computer-techniques-bring-blacked-words-light.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/business/technology-resear...
- danso 10y ago
  There would be a huge number of possibilities given the size and sparsity of the redactions. It's not just words being redacted, but numbers.

From the article: “Michaels said the information was withheld pending a determination on whether it is covered by a confidentiality agreement. It is possible that that portion of the complaint — which appears to contain a detailed account of Pompliano’s brief tenure at Snapchat — could become public.”

randycupertino 10y ago
" It is possible that that portion of the complaint — which appears to contain a detailed account of Pompliano’s brief tenure at Snapchat — could become public.” Sounds like a thinly veiled threat to strongarm Snapchat into a quick $ettlement.
- madgar 10y ago
  A threat by whom? The American legal system? The sentence before the one you quoted explained the straightforward legal process by which unredaction may be authorized. A judge decides if this is officially released. Not the plaintiff.
  - smileysteve 10y ago
    It doesn't make it to the judge if it settles quickly.
    - madgar 10y ago
      I guess by that definition, literally all legal processes in US civil court are "thinly veiled threats". Which might be a fair perspective, but I think OP should point that perspective out ahead of time in the future. Maybe by instead writing something like this: "Like every engagement with the legal system, this sounds like a thinly veiled threat..." Being explicit makes clear that one thinks that it isn't anything specific to the case that makes it a threat - it's just the fact that the legal system has been invoked.

TheSageMage 10y ago

Right? I was wondering if it would be possible to build something to guess what these redacted lines(at least for the not-8-page-part) say. Since they redact mid-sentence, could you calculate the font size, estimate how many characters there are, and fill in some common words using an NLP based implementation? Or would the sheer volume/complexity be too much?

asher_ 10y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/business/technology-researchers-develop-computer-techniques-bring-blacked-words-light.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/business/technology-resear...
danso 10y ago
There would be a huge number of possibilities given the size and sparsity of the redactions. It's not just words being redacted, but numbers.