Oops! :)

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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}


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Prof. Jonathan I. Ezor
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Director, Institute for Business, Law and Technology (IBLT)
Touro Law Center
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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


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