Redaction errors from .gov are surprisingly common. The court reporter at Barrett Brown's first (of two) sentencing hearing provided a transcript of that proceeding. The PDF included black redaction squares censoring her transcribed text of two bench conference.s All I had to do to liberate that text from redaction was use the PDF program Okular: I clicked "Selection", highlighted the redacted text, picked "Copy to clipboard", and pasted the clipboard contents into a text editor.
Info here if anyone's curious - http://douglaslucas.com/files/Unredacted_BBLOL_BenchConferences.html - my article mentioned and linked is now no longer up at Revolution News, but it is on Wayback Machine. On 2019-09-11 20:40, Razer wrote: > "The immigration agency had sought to redact the location of the new > training facility, but failed to do so properly. The agency, which has > made this kind of mistake previously, appears to have a systemic > information-security problem. > > In this case, Newsweek was able to simply copy and paste the > document's contents into a word processor and quickly establish that > the facility would be built at the Office of Firearms and Tactical > Programs' (OFTP) Tactical Operations Complex (TOC) at Fort Benning, > Georgia, a U.S. Army post used to prepare soldiers for combat. > > In addition to revealing Fort Benning as the location of the training > site, ICE also failed to properly redact information indicating that > the Army post would be getting an expansion, with up to 50 buildings > expected to be added to the site. > > "A Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) vehicle will be competed among GSA > Federal Supply Schedule holders for additional training buildings and > interior/exterior outfitting in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 20," > ICE states in a portion it did not attempt to redact from the > document. > > In a following partially redacted line, it states: "OFTP plans to > expand the Training Site at Ft. Benning to include up to 50 additional > buildings and add additional U.S. city layouts and designs." > Throughout the document, areas that were meant to be withheld were not > redacted properly, including signature lines at the bottom of the > document. Instead of names, these would-be redacted lines contain what > appears to be placeholders, such as "ijunynyhhjhjhjjjjjjj," > "hnjumgfrdddfffffff" and "BHMKKOOOOOO." > > ICE's new training facility is expected to include,"at a minimum," a > "multitude of basic, intermediate and hyper-realistic training > devices, a tactical training warehouse, classroom facilities and > vehicle assault training area." > > Among those training devices will be a "hyper-realistic props/design" > that simulates "residential houses, apartments, hotels, government > facilities and commercial buildings," along with other training > configurations. > > ICE is specifically interested in acquiring a "Chicago" style replica, > as well as an "Arizona" style replica, with the agency expecting to > dedicate a total estimated value of $961,347.75 to the effort." > > More, including Dox, at NewsWeek: > https://www.newsweek.com/ice-fails-redact-document-reveals-location-urban-warfare-training-facility-1458732 > Rr > Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail