Yet Another Redacting Failure
This sort of thing happens so often it’s no longer news:
Conte’s e-mails were intended to be blacked out in a 51-page electronic filing Wednesday in which the government argued against the Chronicle’s motion to quash the subpoena. Eight of those pages were not supposed to be public.
But the redacted parts in the computer file could be seen by copying them and pasting the material in a word processing program.
Another news article here.
Matthew Skala • June 26, 2006 2:12 PM
This kind of scenario always reminds me of the old story of The Phage In The Letter – http://www.panix.com/~iayork/phage.shtml . These days, it’d be easy to imagine something similar involving an embedded font in a Postscript or PDF document.