I've only seen videos of it, but apparently you can copy paste the redacted parts of the pdfs. They legit left all of the text data on a different layer.

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I wish the people who found that would’ve kept their mouths shut until 100% is released

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Unfortunately with an error so egregious, the amount of people who found that near instantly was probably in the thousands

[–] Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly. I dabble in competitive assessment and the amount of times weve got competitors data because they didnt flatten a file is astounding. The one we try every time with moderate success is checking every picture to see if you can "uncrop" it. So many times the rest of the picture is actually in the file and the crop is just for display purposes. Most of the time the rest of the photo is useless, but ill never forget the time we got the whole process map for their upcoming production schedule

[–] ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 9 points 1 week ago

That sounds like a pretty cool job, do you have any other stories you could share?

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

FWIW they've always been bad at redacting things, this has happened before with other documents IIRC

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

It wasn't an error.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

They're never going to be 100% released.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Yea I saw this as well, it was only a handful of documents but they did indeed do that on them.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Yep on mobile I could select the blackouts and do a copy paste into a note app.