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evacide
evacide
@evacide@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray

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GitHub - freelawproject/x-ray: A tool to detect whether a PDF has a bad redaction

A tool to detect whether a PDF has a bad redaction - freelawproject/x-ray
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Nova Rivera
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@novarivera@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@evacide I'm glad my donations to the EFF are funding stuff like this. Didn't know their chief of cybersecurity was this cool do.

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Levi K.
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@kyge@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Such a useful tool.

On an unrelated note. I hope its use will not be in a manner that a legal team could come after them for attempting to gain access to classified information or to expose victims.
Stay safe!

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@utf_7@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@evacide i always open the pdf files in inkscape. often you can move the black bar around. somehow i didnt manage it to work in gimp. no clue why inkscape keeps the layers

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@drdusty@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@evacide Happy hunting #impeachtrump

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@Qybat@batchats.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@evacide PDF is a truly horrible format inside, an absolute nightmare to edit. That is why even simple redactions are so difficult. Also why it breaks screen readers.

Each page is actually a little program in a language related to but not the same as postscript, containing instructions to draw the page. Instructions in an arbitrary order decided by the program that generated the PDF, which bears no connection the reading order or layout of the document.

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Florian 'floe' Echtler
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@floe@hci.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@evacide given the sky-high levels of competence among Trump loyalists...

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@revk@toot.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@floe @evacide I did wonder if they would have cocked this up. Either leaving text under black boxes, or using not 100% opaque black on images.

... I hear they have indeed cocked it up ...

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