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[–] 143 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Actually there’s dozens of really good free / open source apps that can do that. Let’s face it, forgetting to flatten the edited version is not a technical problem. It’s a laziness one.

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    One of the few communities I miss on reddit...

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)
  • Yeah I'm not sure, but haven't spent any time really looking through them. I've seen some images that were clearly scanned and the size reduced so you couldnt read words in the image you'd think they would have scanned the redacted files as well to the same PDF dump or whatever, which had they done would have flattened them. To me it seems more of a we "properly" redacted and covered up files for some people, and we didn't care as much about others. Whether or not they were trying to allow for those people to be "accidentally" found is a possibility, but who knows

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    A lot of open source applications can't be used by government agencies because the pedigree of the software can't be verified, so you can't be sure foreign entities didn't add any code.

    But really there's a million ways to do this - even whatever application they used would have been fine if they simply printed out the redacted files and rescanned them.

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