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Re:NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on pre... by mjevans on Monday October 25, 2021 @02:46AM (#28985061)
I built a redaction process for a small company once.

My critical security step was rendering out the PDF as individual flat image files, then re-assembling it like a traditionally photo-copied document.

That way the loss-full operation is enforced, at the cost of forcing end users to OCR unsearchable image-scan (like) PDFs.

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Re:NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on pre... by hyper_dynamics on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:36AM (#28985954)
It's the only way to be sure!
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Re:NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on pre... by raxxorrax on Monday October 25, 2021 @08:15AM (#28986910)
You could replace the censored text with gibberish before blacking it out. Or some secret message for QAnons to find.
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Re:NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on pre... by pvillano on Monday October 25, 2021 @07:20PM (#28994444)
well if you had an open (.odf) or openable (.doc≈xml) format you could replace strings and be sure something was gone
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