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There's a story from years ago (I couldn't find it) about some government or legal documents having info redacted, but whoever did it just used some pdf editing

There's a story from years ago (I couldn't find it) about some government or legal documents having info redacted, but whoever did it just used some pdf editing tool to draw black boxes over the redacted parts, so all the info was still in the pdfs. Edit: I found this but I'm not sure it's the one I'm remembering: https://www.techdirt.com/2014/01/28/new-york-times-suffers-redaction-failure-exposes-name-nsa-agent-targeted-network-uploaded-pdf/ https://www.techdirt.com/2014/01/28/new-york-times-suffers-r...

perth 4y ago
This happened with the Maxwell redacted court docs
- lliamander 4y ago
  Do you have a link to the unrelated docs?
  - lliamander 4y ago
    *unredacted Stupid autocorrect
karlshea 4y ago
One of the Apple v Samsung (?) cases had court docs released with some App Store numbers redacted but it was just black squares over the actual numbers, just selecting the sentence and copy/pasting it gave it to you.