Comment by tim333
17 hours ago
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.
17 hours ago
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.
Why into Word specifically?
You have a better editor?
ed is the standard Unix text editor.
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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
Why reveal the trick before all the papers have been released?
Someone wanted to make sure to be the first?
IKR?!
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.