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[–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

To be fair it’s genuinely a super common mistake. I see redacted documents often at work (I do nothing fancy, just some privacy policy thing we deal with) and on like 30% of the documents we get you can either just highlight the underlying text or literally click and drag the black box off of the words lol.

I guess what happens is people can redact it such that they can no longer see it in their particular pdf software but then a different software can bypass it

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    I guess what happens is people can redact it such that they can no longer see it in their particular pdf software but then a different software can bypass it

    That's pretty charitable. I've worked civil service many years ago and the computer skills of some of them were beyond laughable. I never dealt with redacted documents during that stint of my life but I can say with 100% certainty that I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if someone "redacted" a document by making the text and background highlight color black and posting the Word docx file online.

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