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Certainly, but that's now on a new level. The problem of oversharing with PDF is pretty common. To use a high-profile example: >Failed redaction reveals Paul M
by quitit 3y ago
Certainly, but that's now on a new level. The problem of oversharing with PDF is pretty common. To use a high-profile example:
>Failed redaction reveals Paul Manafort's 'lies to FBI'
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46804127 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46804127
Moving deeper into just redaction failures:
The American Bar Association even has a topic dedicated to redaction failures, where they list numerous examples of it (including the one above):
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/judicial/publications/judges_journal/2019/spring/embarrassing-redaction-failures/ https://www.americanbar.org/groups/judicial/publications/jud...
Yet redaction failures are just one of many ways that a PDF can overshare, simply printing and scanning it solves a great many problems. I think it's a good approach for people who aren't tech savvy, especially with longer documents.
- nikanj 3y agoThe fool-proof redaction method: 1) Print 2) Cut out the parts you want to leave out (blacking them with a market might leave an opening for revealing them via some contrast tweaking) 3) Scan Easy to explain, easy to implement, easy to remember.
- quitit 3y agook i lol'd
- extraduder_ire 3y agoMake sure those cuts are done sloppily. If you know what the font is, it's possible to derive details about the text that was redacted using kerning information. This matters more for digital redaction, even if the data is actually removed and not just covered with black rectangles.