And AGAIN a PDF Redaction gone wrong... When will you get the message!?

Friday, April 23, 2010

And AGAIN a PDF Redaction gone wrong... When will you get the message!?

Capitol Fax Blog - *** UPDATED x1 *** Blagojevich hurls allegations at Obama in bid to force testimony

“Rod Blagojevich’s attorneys filed a motion today to subpoena President Obama to testify at the former governor’s trial…

“President Obama has direct knowledge to allegations made in the indictment. In addition, President Obama’s public statements contradict other witness statements, specifically those made by labor union official and Senate Candidate B,” the motion said.

The motion is here. Several parts are redacted, but you can easily copy and paste the entire motion into a text file and view all the redacted material. Oops on somebody’s part.

* All of the most explosive allegations in the motion were redacted.

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NBC Chicago - Redactions Revealed: The Six Secrets You Need to Know From the Obama Subpoena Request

“Update: Judge calls emergency meeting over redaction errors.

Former governor Rod Blagojevich's defense team asked Thursday to issue a trial subpoena to the President of the United States of America.

The motion, intended to be heavily redacted, was improperly edited -- the full document was easily viewable if the text is copied and pasted to another document (an error first revealed on Capitol Fax).

Below, the six revelations the redacted portions were meant to conceal.

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This is starting to be not funny. Really, another non-really-redacted redacted PDF? Really? Really?

If you produce a PDF would you PLEASE CHECK IT for this stupid and simple thing? Wake up people! It’s not like this is some secret, uber ninja hacker skillz needed method, it’s fricken copy and paste!

Sorry for getting upset, but this is like the gazillion’th time this has happened, and happened with a highly visible way. sigh…