Here on Hacker News four years ago we figured out the redacted name of a country in a similar way. The Intercept[1] reported that the National Security Agency w

Here on Hacker News four years ago we figured out the redacted name of a country in a similar way. The Intercept[1] reported that the National Security Agency was secretly recording the audio of every phone call in the Bahamas and in one other unnamed country. Looking at the length of country name in the source document, we figured out that it was Afghanistan[2] based on the length of the blacked-out area and that it couldn't word wrap to a second line. [1] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/05/19/data-pirates-caribbean-nsa-recording-every-cell-phone-call-bahamas/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/05/19/data-p... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7768839 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7768839