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Re:Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Servic... by argumentum on Monday July 08, 2013 @06:37PM (#6009818)
Nonetheless, we'll get to see how much is redacted and therefore how much they want to hide. That's valuable information in and of itself.
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Re:Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Servic... by phillmv on Monday July 08, 2013 @07:07PM (#6009989)
I predict his file will be incredibly boring/banal stuff, with the odd wild conjecture. The blacked out parts will consist entirely of things embarrassing to the agents who compiled it.
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Re:Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Servic... by jlgreco on Monday July 08, 2013 @06:44PM (#6009856)
I wonder if it would be legal for them to throw on a few extra all-black pages as "padding".

Not worth it obviously, but it would be an amusing hack.

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Re:Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Servic... by phaus on Monday July 08, 2013 @06:55PM (#6009926)
Like a couple pages of redacted "This page intentionally left blank"?
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Re:Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Servic... by jlgreco on Monday July 08, 2013 @06:59PM (#6009949)
Yeah, exactly! You'd have to redact the blankness of course, otherwise people would know what it was.. ;)
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Re:Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Servic... by benatkin on Monday July 08, 2013 @08:16PM (#6010315)
Either way, they get to collect IP addresses of those who try to view it.
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Re:Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Servic... by phaus on Monday July 08, 2013 @06:41PM (#6009840)
It would have the potential to be valuable in the future, if nefarious acts came to light via some other method, because it would potentially show that possibly illegal actions were taken to hide the information. However, if nothing actionable is ever discovered about this case, then the redacted documents would be completely worthless. Only time will tell.
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Re:Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Servic... by popee on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @07:53AM (#6012173)
Metadata :-)
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