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Can't facepalm enough. Just, amazing incompetence.

• closeparen 6y ago
  People say the same thing about scans of printouts. But I guess there is a reason for those.
  • MattGaiser 6y ago
    Those at least destroy any non-visible data.
    • pabs3 6y ago
      I feel like contrast enhancement or similar would be able to bring that back.
      • Scoundreller 6y ago
        That’s also why they scan in b&w with a potato. Also has the side-effect of making many graphs/charts impossible to interpret.
        • esquivalience 6y ago
          > "with a potato" This is either a typo or I want to know more about it.
          • chki 6y ago
            It's an Internet running Gag, if the quality of something produced by a technical product is bad, you might say: "Was this filmed/calculated/etc with a potato?" https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/recorded-with-a-potato https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/reco...
• numpad0 6y ago
  But customers are always right, which is why Acrobat these days has special features to do this. Besides deleting letters under it could affect layouts.
  • PowerBar 6y ago
    > Besides deleting letters under it could affect layouts. Which is in and of itself a security risk. Not only can the length of the redaction give an estimate on the length of the password, but for variable width fonts, could even rule out many passwords using pixel measurements between the text on either side.