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More PDF Blackout Follies

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-even-secret-what-they-want-secret dept.

georgewilliamherbert writes "The latest installment of "As the PDF Blackouts Turn" hit today, with a U.S. government apparently releasing a redacted version of their court filing in the Balco grand jury leak case which merely stuck a black line over the text, which remains available in the document. As with prior documents, entering text cut/paste mode in a normal PDF browser such as Acrobat allows a reader to access the concealed text. Previous incidents include an AT&T filing in the NSA case." This works with Xpdf and KPDF, too; for KPDF, use the selection tool (under the Tools menu) around the redacted section, copy to clipboard, then paste into the text-manipulator of your choice.

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  1. A redacted document? Say it ain't so! by greenguy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    redact Audio pronunciation of "redact" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ri-dakt)
    tr.v. redacted, redacting, redacts

          1. To draw up or frame (a proclamation, for example).
          2. To make ready for publication; edit or revise.

    From dictionary.com.

    I certainly hope a court would redact its opinions. I would not, however, hope that it would censor its own opinion.

    If we're going to discuss constraints on information, can we please do so in an informed way? It does us no good to self-constrain.

    --
    What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
  2. NSA is full of wackos by Filtrid · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey...... all this talking about the NSA, it gives me the taste for playing Splinter Cell, anyone up ?, if it wasnt for that stupid game, the NSA would be hated...... http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/05/nsa-dating-serv ice.html their already thinking of doing a online dating service themselfs, aint it obvius that their hole plan is to SPY ?, Its not from yesterday that they are ignorant fools!

  3. Re:which? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hunh?

  4. Re:And these are... by nyctopterus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Another thing that pisses me off is incopetence." "Incopetence" - is that like when you can't cope?

  5. For the last friggin time - it's COPY and paste!! by storemike · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    For all the dipshits out there who don't know the difference between cut and copy, here are the basics: Cut deletes the selected text while saving a copy of it in the clipboard. Copy just copies the selected text to the clipboard. If the original or source text remains unchanged, you are not cutting, you are copying. Saying cut and paste is about as intelligent as my former boss saying that he had to "flush" [sic] out the development plans. Oh, and, by the way, more/most + adjective = comparative/superlative case 99% of the time. More simple and most deadly are about as wrong as Bush's presidency.