Comment by e38383

"attempted" would be more accurate IMO.

I still think that the word redacted is meant to destroy the original text, it might not remove the metadata (e.g. length).

Redaction is done mostly in ways with a possibility to reveal the underlying text, but all this is not redacted in my understanding of the word. I always liked the english word for this – the german word "schwärzen" just means to "blacken" the text and this was never the same for me.

But after further research I must agree with you, it just means to obscure or remove, but not clearly just remove. I have been using it for years in a stronger meaning that it's really meant.

One more but: we hopefully can all agree that putting a black bar over some text which still is just copy/pasteable is not even obscuring.