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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by walrus01 on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:05PM (#16854828)
I'm just surprised they didn't "redact" the documents by drawing black boxes over top of text in the Adobe Acrobat PDF editing tool... If their web presence is that clueless it seems like exactly the sort of thing that would happen.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/05/pdf_radacting...

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by lysp on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:44PM (#16855008)
Something similar happened in Australia last year.

Federal Government ministers all have their phone bill summaries released as part of public record with private information removed.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-hundreds-of-parliamentary-mo...

The contractor redacted the phone numbers in this instance by changing the font colour to white (same as the background) in the PDFs uploaded to the government disclosure website. So if you exported to text, or highlighted text, the phone numbers were clearly visible.

So most federal members of parliament, the former prime minister (Australia's equivalent of president) and opposition leader all had their numbers leaked.

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by stickdogg on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:38AM (#16857369)
. The large percentage of people are still clueless these days.
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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by logicallee on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:00AM (#16856137)
>Federal Government ministers all have their phone bill summaries released as part of public record with private information removed

Why?

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by beobab on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:31AM (#16856276)
Because they want a phone line that they can talk to their spouse and children without having to field thousands of calls from well-meaning people who want to wish them a good day?
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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by logicallee on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @06:03AM (#16856906)
Sorry, I should have written

>Federal Government ministers all have their phone bill summaries released as part of public record

Why?

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by chongli on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @08:19AM (#16857598)
So that the public knows they aren't making secret phone calls to lobbyists or what have you. The purpose of transparency is always to reduce corruption.
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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by vageli on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @08:13AM (#16866683)
But they redact the phone numbers so how can you do that?
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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by keketi on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:01AM (#16856644)
> who want to wish them a good day

I see what you did there.

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by stickdogg on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:39AM (#16857378)
Lmao. "Wishing to mean them a good day"? Really?
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