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Oops! :)
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:25:16 -0500
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [IP] Oops! :) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:51:33 -0500 From: Jonathan Ezor <jezor () tourolaw edu> To: dave () farber net This is a frequent issue for people who don't understand how the "redaction" in Acrobat works. Essentially, it's a recoloring feature, which turns the background the same black color as the text. Fine for printing, completely useless for digital reading and copy/pasting. This came up in the reports over the shooting last year by U.S. troops of the Italian intelligence agent escorting rescued Italian journalist Giulana Sgrena, and I use it as a cautionary tale in my own presentations. You can find a May 2005 writeup of the Sgrena report situation at: <http://www.planetpdf.com/enterprise/article.asp?ContentID=7049> {Jonathan} ------------------- Prof. Jonathan I. Ezor Assistant Professor of Law and Technology Director, Institute for Business, Law and Technology (IBLT) Touro Law Center 300 Nassau Road, Huntington, NY 11743 Tel: 631-421-2244 x412 Fax: 516-977-3001 e-mail: jezor () tourolaw edu -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 2:03 PM To: ip () v2 listbox com Subject: [IP] Oops! :) Begin forwarded message: From: Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com> Date: February 20, 2006 1:53:16 PM EST To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>, Dave <dave () farber net> Subject: Oops! :) I found the pdf of the Kenedy County Sheriff's report on the Whittington shooting. I converted it to ASCII text using Acrobat Reader for Linux. I was unsatisfied with the formatting, so I decided to check out google's pdf-to-html rendering. In the original pdf, the Driver's License Numbers of the members of the hunting party had been redacted - but google's rendering engine displayed the unredacted numbers. http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=253421 ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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