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Note to self: print all documents in mono-spaced Courier New if I intend to ever redact any contents.
by pja 9y ago
Note to self: print all documents in mono-spaced Courier New if I intend to ever redact any contents.
- Smushman 9y agoMixed fonts...
- kabdib 9y agoClip out letters from magazines and paste them onto craft paper. Plenty of precedence. "iF YOu wAnT tO SEe yOUR deMOCRacY aGAIn lEAvE 5 miLLioN dOLlArs uNDer THE bRidGe AT ..."
- tempestn 9y agoThat always seemed bizarre to me. I get that printers, typewriters, and handwriting can all be identified, but why not just grab a common bic pen and hold it in your fist like a four year old, then print? I don't see how that could be matched to anything, and surely there's less room to screw up than when you're pasting out of a bunch of magazines and newspapers.
- kabdib 9y agoAgreed. I always figured this was a meme that made it easier for the police to track you down (just do some forensics on the magazine paper, fonts, etc., and locate someone with matching subscriptions). "Hey boss, we got a subscriber to Mad Bomber Monthly, Torture World, and BYTE." (flipFlipFLip) "One of these three guys?"
- Smushman 9y agoIf I drank milk, it would have shot out of my nose.
- nasredin 9y agoPlease take money! We will throw in another 5 if you also take your closet-case VP with you!
- pavel_lishin 9y agoBut then you'd be giving away the exact length of the redacted text. In this case, you'd be narrowing the options down to "four", "five", and "nine" - reasonable, but longer text blocks would be more susceptible to analysis.
- autokad 9y agothats a good point, what about random fonts per character? sucks when you get a wingding, but hey
- craftyguy 9y ago> sucks when you get a wingding, but hey redaction by wingding could be a feature
- pavel_lishin 9y agoThat seems like it would make text incredibly difficult for a human to read.
- lifeformed 9y agoWhat about random noise in whitespace length?
- pja 9y agoYes, you’d have to replace the blacked out text with a fixed length string too. "REDACTED" perhaps.
- defen 9y agoIt seems like instead you need to manually replace all redacted text with a fixed-width placeholder like `[REDACTED]`
- SlowRobotAhead 9y agoDue to new regulations all documents must be padded .
- jshap70 9y agoif it's not a random ammount per word it can still be guessed though, and even then it wont work unless they use a monospace font.
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- blattimwind 9y agoMonospace fonts only reduce this channel. If you want to redact properly, you'd need to replace every redacted section with a fixed-length placeholder.
- emilfihlman 9y agoYou also need to do padding.
- astrodust 9y agoMonospace tells you precisely how many characters were redacted. A proportional font with random kerning is better, but typographers would probably murder you in your sleep.