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I don't think that's sharpie. It's very uniform. In some of the images, it's done per word for adjacent words—who would do that by hand, making all the intricat

I don't think that's sharpie. It's very uniform. In some of the images, it's done per word for adjacent words—who would do that by hand, making all the intricate rounded corners? And in some, the censored areas overlap, and the overlapping area is transparent (like a Venn diagram), which suggests it was done digitally. I don't think it's physically possible to achieve that effect by hand, at least not without being extremely deliberate. Which begs the question, if this was done digitally, did nobody look at the result? Nobody saw that the redacted text was easily still readable? From the look of it, it's like they used a tool for highlighting, with the color set to something dark. Without being too much of a conspiracy theorist, it almost seems like this was an intentional leak. Hanlon's razor and everything, but it wouldn't really be "malice" if they were trying to either sow false information or reveal details that they wanted to make seem like they were trying to keep private.

xypage 3y ago
I wonder if they did a black highlight digitally and then printed that, not taking the time to verify that the black was dark enough that it was actually making the text under it unrecoverable.
- nashashmi 3y ago
  I too have noticed all sorts of legal filings being blackened out ineffectively. And majority of the time it is not apparent unless you on a very bright monitor and zoom into the text. (I never said anything because I didn’t want anyone to feel embarrassed that the data they were trying to protect didn’t stay secret). I always wondered what happens when my lawyers do the same thing. When scanners shine green light into a page, the kinds of details they reveal is extraordinary. I have been able to recover hidden text this way. The same thing happened when I took a camera snapshot of a page. And used filters to make it gray. Hidden text security feature pops out.

xypage 3y ago

I wonder if they did a black highlight digitally and then printed that, not taking the time to verify that the black was dark enough that it was actually making the text under it unrecoverable.

nashashmi 3y ago
I too have noticed all sorts of legal filings being blackened out ineffectively. And majority of the time it is not apparent unless you on a very bright monitor and zoom into the text. (I never said anything because I didn’t want anyone to feel embarrassed that the data they were trying to protect didn’t stay secret). I always wondered what happens when my lawyers do the same thing. When scanners shine green light into a page, the kinds of details they reveal is extraordinary. I have been able to recover hidden text this way. The same thing happened when I took a camera snapshot of a page. And used filters to make it gray. Hidden text security feature pops out.