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Why not OCR the document to limit traceability?

• zerocrates 4y ago
  Sure you could do that too. You mean, just release it as text, I assume. It would certainly cut out a lot of possible methods of fingerprinting, leaving actual changes to the text only pretty much, which are probably not as common outside some limited scenarios. I think the reason you don't do that is that things like the formatting and so on being accurate lend credibility to the document.
  • dorfsmay 4y ago
    At the end of the day, credibility is a trust issue, and in the Photoshop era I don't think having the right header and the right formatting add much to the credibility.
• ghaff 4y ago
  Fewer potential clues but also less credibility I expect. OCR also isn't going to be 100% though probably more than good enough in this case. If you really want to implement subtle tracking, you could make changes in the document itself that differ by recipient.