Tuesday, May 03, 2005

US Military PDF Redaction "Issue"

Sound Evidence: E-Discovery Simplified: PDF redaction lapse

"... "simply put black rectangles over the text and did not delete any of the text itself from the documents. They were trying to do redaction with something not designed to do redaction.''

By simply opening the document in Adobe's free Acrobat Reader, hitting the "select text'' button, copying and then pasting all the text into any word processor, readers can see what's buried beneath.

... Ever wonder why TIFF's won't disappear? "


Dogh!

And sigh... I can still keep hoping TIFF's will go away one day (but I doubt they will in the near future... double sigh).

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