people have figured out that the redacted documents released were not done with any redaction tool but merely highlighted boxes. many people are now combing through everything to see what can actually be viewed after all.
people have figured out that the redacted documents released were not done with any redaction tool but merely highlighted boxes. many people are now combing through everything to see what can actually be viewed after all.
When I’ve read the “hacked” headlines. I thought to myself “They couldn’t have just highlighted it in black… right?”. Can’t tell if incompetent or chaotic good.
It feels like someone wanted this out and had to follow orders. If intentional, it’s brilliant. If not, it’s hilarious.
Believing that someone engaged in some malicious compliance here would restore a tiny sliver of my faith in humanity… which means it was probably just incompetence.
This has happened plenty of times before with redacted documents, someone just goes in, sets the highlighting tool to black, and uses it that way, without realizing that doesn’t actually obscure the words underneath like a sharpie would
Well, I don’t think it’s highlighted in black. They just changed the image or vector data without changing/removing the text data that sits separately but rendered on top of it.
so highlighted black…
No. Highlighting in black will still store the text vector data (usually). It will just appear as a black block.
Have you checked that they actually changed the vector data?
of course they goddamn did ahahah nobody can tell a single one of them “no,” or “hey this isn’t a good idea.” they’re all smart, duh.