• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    3 hours ago

    This has been known for years (decades?): setting black text against a black background in a PDF doesn’t eliminate the text in the PDF. Duh…

    The only reason why this is still an idiotic mistake made by public officials is because public officials are idiots.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 hours ago

      The more I read about what’s in some of these files (e.g. a report about Trump being present while a 13yo rape victim’s newborn baby was thrown into lake Michigan), the more I’m starting to think it was intentional.

      The people who had to go through this shit to redact it might be fascist pieces of shit, but they’re still ostensibly in fields at least somewhat related to law enforcement. Having to read shit like that, and then be complicit in covering it up… I dunno.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      3 hours ago

      Even if the text is removed, if the font is a proportional one, the very exact dimensions of any removed text plus knowledge of stuff like kerning can reveal the text.