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Apocryphally some places have a policy that all redacted documents must be printed then rescanned before release.
by tedunangst 9y ago
Apocryphally some places have a policy that all redacted documents must be printed then rescanned before release.
- walrus01 9y agobecause fuck you, trees! right?
- simcop2387 9y agoIt's the simplest method to wipe out any metadata from the original document
- zaroth 9y agoReality Winner missed that day at NSA training!
- cesis 9y agoShe did print it and probably was caught because of that http://mashable.com/2017/06/06/printer-dots-nsa-leak.amp http://mashable.com/2017/06/06/printer-dots-nsa-leak.amp
- cperciva 9y agoDoesn't that reveal the serial numbers of the printers they use?
- joncrocks 9y agoThey just print it again and re-scan. It's printers all the way down.
- tedunangst 9y agoMaybe they don't care? Learning this was printed by the printer used for redacted info doesn't tell you much.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThe govt should write themselves a virtual printer that would take in the data stream and output a PDF made of individual images. A typical print-to-PDF virtual printer, but government-sanctioned, and they could also make it do something like store the document in an audit database or whatever, just to give people a strong incentive not to skip it or use anything else.
- tedunangst 9y agoThat would be interesting and not hard to setup. Install cups on some box, definitely not the host containing sensitive info, and you have a limited, auditable outbound channel.
- pixl97 9y agoIt does open another risk of nation state style attacks that compromise the virtual print driver in a manner that it does not redact information, or encodes 'hidden' information into the format of the document. That seems easier to do with a digital print driver than with the messy digital to analog conversions that occur in a scanner/printer.