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Re:TSA redaction fail: hidden text easily readable via copy ... by derefr on Sunday December 06, 2009 @11:14PM (#980695)
Perhaps they want to keep the formatting, and don't want pages to reflow after they've already been layed out? The Unicode character "█" works well for this purpose.
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Re:TSA redaction fail: hidden text easily readable via copy ... by lt on Monday December 07, 2009 @06:01AM (#981028)
I remember a similar story from a few years ago where redacted names where discovered from the length of the redacted characters. Turned out it wasn't too difficult to brute force names and see which ones matched the exact size of the redaction.
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Re:TSA redaction fail: hidden text easily readable via copy ... by eru on Monday December 07, 2009 @10:42AM (#981326)
They should have used a fixed width font.
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