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[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 238 points 7 months ago

out of all the censored things, they didn't think to censor a product key before declassifying it. I wish I could say I was surprised.

[-] myrmidex@belgae.social 212 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This seems to suggest that the redactions weren't done by legal professionals.

[-] SchadeMarmelade@feddit.org 102 points 7 months ago

Understatement of the year so far.

[-] BitsAndBites@lemmy.world 144 points 7 months ago

The product key didnt have -TRUMP- in it so it's fine

[-] bobo@lemmy.ml 23 points 7 months ago

I've only seen videos of it, but apparently you can copy paste the redacted parts of the pdfs. They legit left all of the text data on a different layer.

[-] ptu@sopuli.xyz 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I wish the people who found that would’ve kept their mouths shut until 100% is released

[-] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 44 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately with an error so egregious, the amount of people who found that near instantly was probably in the thousands

[-] Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 36 points 7 months ago

Exactly. I dabble in competitive assessment and the amount of times weve got competitors data because they didnt flatten a file is astounding. The one we try every time with moderate success is checking every picture to see if you can "uncrop" it. So many times the rest of the picture is actually in the file and the crop is just for display purposes. Most of the time the rest of the photo is useless, but ill never forget the time we got the whole process map for their upcoming production schedule

[-] ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 9 points 7 months ago

That sounds like a pretty cool job, do you have any other stories you could share?

[-] Zorsith 7 points 7 months ago

FWIW they've always been bad at redacting things, this has happened before with other documents IIRC

[-] fodor@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

It wasn't an error.

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

They're never going to be 100% released.

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

Yea I saw this as well, it was only a handful of documents but they did indeed do that on them.

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