http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/page/department-justice-black...
You see, as The President of The United States of America pledged: if he gets elected, he will create the most transparent administration in the history of the USA!
So long story short, they will not redact anything.
Talk about releasing very transparent documents.
Not worth it obviously, but it would be an amusing hack.
Wouldn't that de facto qualify as a contempt of court?
Maybe we get real and make it all Open Source.. and two sides.. Hell.. maybe we can KickStart a 200 millions cable submarine project ? ??
How do you properly redact a physical paper document? I would imagine that black sharpie doesn't cut it.
It then assists with the initial redaction by performing OCR on the content, allowing you to quickly search for sensitive information. The software provides built-in tools for blacking out sensitive sections of the document - some even provide configurable overlays/stamps on the blackouts for why that section was redacted.
Then one or more humans manually go over the documents to make sure that nothing was missed. When they are happy with the results, the document is finalized into a TIFF or PDF document with the pages flattened into single image objects (so you can't just delete the black boxes - they are now part of the embedded image).
The original documents do not need to be harmed in any way, they just need to be able to be scanned to start the process.
Conversion to an image format helps to ensure that if the source was an electronic document that sensitive original source metadata or proprietary document format binary blobs don't inadvertently leak redacted information. If a physical copy is required, you just print it.
And if you fail to do that, you get this (original link is gone, but here's the discussion, and the gist is the TSA released "redacted documents" where you could just select over the blacked out areas and ctrl-C to recover the text).
2. Appendix 1 (the section referenced) might be objectionable to the eco-conscious. Tread with caution.
In modern practice, scan, bitmap paint 100% black, print?
Edit: actually, just put a black filter over the sensitive parts while photocopying. That way you don't damage the original and you can send the photocopy over.
Several thousand pages? For one person who is obviously not a terrorist?
This is the sort of thing that the US government would point out in other nations as being unacceptable while I was growing up...
Now we're the bad guys.
This seems unlikely to be a recent phenomenon, what with McCarthyism and all.
You know, given the choice.. even being a face that is trampled on by a boot, forever, is better than becoming a boot, forever.
