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It's quite funny really. Apparently you just cut and paste the text into Word. They just had the pdf put black rectangles on top.

• pilaf 11mo ago
  Why into Word specifically?
  • iAMkenough 11mo ago
    The average office worker has it on their computer, illustrating how commonplace unredacting could be. Any text tool will work, even some designed to detect bad redactions in PDFs via drag and drop (now specifically trained on these known bad redactions). https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray
  • arendtio 11mo ago
    You have a better editor?
    • adtac 11mo ago
      ed is the standard Unix text editor.
      • lagniappe 11mo ago
        ed is a line editor
        • Melonai 11mo ago
          vi is also an editor, but sadly not the standard one, and since standard is king: ed it is.
• echelon 11mo ago
  Why reveal the trick before all the papers have been released?
  • pohl 11mo ago
    IKR?!
  • Sceptre6 11mo ago
    I don't think there is a grand conspiracy here. Any schmoe can download these files, select with their mouse, and copy paste into a document.
  • alex77456 11mo ago
    Someone wanted to make sure to be the first?
  • njharman 11mo ago
    Clout. Monetization.