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Releasing the plain text is all that's needed. I fail to see how redacting by overwriting the relevant text is at all reversible - e.g. replace every redacted w
by ALittleLight 8y ago
Releasing the plain text is all that's needed. I fail to see how redacting by overwriting the relevant text is at all reversible - e.g. replace every redacted word with five X's. Replace multiple redactions with ten X's. That actually seems more secure than what's currently done, where you can guess at the words by their length.
- WrtCdEvrydy 8y agoTrust me, people have failed... and we've fucked it up in the past. The easiest way is to use a PDF redactor, print it and rescan it.
- wahern 8y ago> Releasing the plain text is all that's needed. I doubt Mueller's team wrote the report in plain text. They probably used Microsoft Word and exported a PDF document. When I'm president, all government agencies will be forced to use LaTeX. Then we can have both plaintext source, PDFs with actual text, and PDFs that don't leak redacted material.
- caseysoftware 8y agoLaTeX? That will effectively prevent most government agencies from writing reports.. oh, that was your goal, wasn't it? Well played.
- i_grow_beans 8y agoAnd I suppose they'll be published in GovtHub, so that anyone can fork them and add their annotations. I'd vote for you, but I'm not a citizen.
- antt 8y agoContext is much better for documents: http://www.berenddeboer.net/tex/LaTeX2ConTeXt.pdf http://www.berenddeboer.net/tex/LaTeX2ConTeXt.pdf