Adobe Pro, when used properly, will redact anything in a PDF permanently.
Whoever did these "bad" redactions doesn't even know how to use a PDF Editor.
We have paralegals and lawyers "mark for redaction", then review the documents, then "apply redactions". It's literally be done by thousands of lawyers/paralegals for decades. This is just someone not following the process and procedure, and making mistakes. It's actually quite amateurish. You should never, ever screw up redactions if you follow the proper process. Good on the X-ray project on trying to find errors.
I just want to add, applying black highlights on top of text is in fact, the "old" way of redaction, as it was common to do this, and then simply print the paper with the black bars, and send the paper as the final product.
Whoever did it is probably old, and may have done it thinking they were going to print it on paper afterwards!! Just guessing as to why someone would do this.
Or they may not understand how PDF works and think that it's the same as paper.
Especially with the "draw a black box over it" method, the text also stops being trivially mouse-selectable (even if CTRL+A might still work).
Another possibility is, of course, that whoever was responsible for this knew exactly what they were doing, but this way they can claim a honest mistake rather than intentionally leaking the data.
A while back I did a little work with a company that were meant to help us improve our security posture. I terminated the contract after they sent me documents in which they’d redacted their own AWS keys using this method.
Any attorney or law enforcement that works for the US Federal Government receives very, very comprehensive instructions on how to redact information on basically the first day of training. There is absolutely zero doubt among any of my DOGE'd friends that this was 100 percent on purpose malicious compliance.
Agreed. I worked on the Canadian side of the legal side and there is a very comprehensive process for redaction. Nobody does redaction unless they follow the process. Never seen anyone 15+ years do something silly like this in the office.
I’m not sure what’s unredactable, but naming victims isn’t something I imagine either party is particularly interested in doing. I imagine the HN malicious // ineptitude rule is in play here, rather than some sub conspiracy conspiracy.
Not surprised. I met with Samsung for work purposes to buy hundreds of phone, and the best they could do with their flagship phones was offer 3 years of security updates. This was around 2019. Apple, who didn't meet with us, was around 6 years from our estimate.
From a ROI, for corporate phones, Apple iPhones had a longer lifespan, which is why we bought hundreds of iPhones, and not Androids.
On a personal note, I had the Nexus S, the Nexus 5, and they all died a horrible death either from lack of updates, or just having the physical button break, and the microphone stop working.
And let us not speak of Sony Xperia Z5, which all of sudden removed their fingerprint sensor due to a North American patent problem. They also broke their bluetooth audio so that song names STOPPED being displayed. That was all in a span of less than 3 years.
Never again Sony Android phones.
At that point, I got fed up of custom ROMS and joined the "iPhone, it just works" group and moved on.
"it just works" is the biggest lie they sell. It works only insofar as you use what 95+% of people use. Step outside and not only is it a big gamble, you've also got no way to debug anything. It's a world of walls and limitations with no Windows in sight
You seem to have hit all the bad luck and concluded (fairly) that anything but Apple must be bad. I seem to have hit all the bad luck on the Apple side. The device I got from work ran out of updates after fewer years than I privately use my Android, and not before the touchscreen partially broke, various apps had software issues that didn't manifest on other (identical) phones, the battery went bad, and certain OS features like hotspot didn't work half the time you tried to turn them on. I've simply never had these issues on Android, and if e.g. an app doesn't work, I can just wipe its data. On iOS there's no such button; it's not something you should need because in 95+% of cases "it just works" and so they don't let you. It's not your device
Currently I'm trying to help an Apple user whose email client broke, both on iOS and macOS, with unexplainable "could not connect" behavior that no other user is seeing (Windows, Android, and Linux all represented). It differs whether they use mobile data or WiFi, but in different ways on different OSes and email clients. Sometimes IMAP works partially (connecting, fetching mail, but not loading folders). I'll probably have to travel 90 minutes each way to see what I can debug on their device. They're tech savvy and we're both perplexed by the different behaviors but there isn't much you can see on iOS so we had given up on mobile email. Now that it's happening on macOS as well suddenly, maybe we can figure something out
It's just not a vendor I'd want to work with myself because there keep being major issues with very limited ways of fixing them. I'm sure most of the functions "just work", just like most Android phones "just work" and you hit a bad apple with that Sony device. At least on Sony you can install a different OS if the issues are major enough that people put in the effort of making one
Yeah, we were locking down the phones anyways, so in terms of features, they didn't use much. However, it's interesting you mention email because even in 2019, the Android system was better for email, and supported encrypted emails, Apple did not. We were told it was in the works, and a few months later, we could send encrypted email. We also had some weird bugs to iron out.
I always remind myself, that Apple does not care for corporate clients, just consumers. So I had to assess what we absolutely needed, vs what could be taken away.
Agreed! I have a 2020 Macbook Air (Apple Silicon) and it's been at 81% for about a year. Heck, it's now at 82% according to System Information, but Coconut Battery says 77.4%. Not sure which is correct any more, and if Apple is doing some funny business. Battery cycle count is at 845, with a manufacture date of 2020-10-05. So 1,770 days old.
I'll try and explain it simply with no technical information.
An API, or Application Programming Interface, allows you to interact with software using pre-defined agreements, or contracts.
Think of API as a set of legal contracts. I use this analogy when explaining it to lawyers.
If I give you $5, and I say give me an Apple, you will give me an Apple, as expected by the predefined contract, that I receive an Apple.
If I end up receiving Broccoli, then what we have here, is a bug. Or, in other words, the contract has been broken.
Now apply this to other domains in commerce - e.g. I give an ID of an item in a store, and I get back the name of the item, it's price, and if it's stock.
I highly recommend watching Jacques Pepin videos as well as Julia and Jacques.
Jacques Pepin is alive and well and some of his recipes are just 2 to 3 ingredients and easy to make. And yes, he is highly technical but explains things so easily to regular people like me.
Pepín is an excellent chef to learn from. Because most of his recipes focus on technique and simplicity rather than recipe and seasoning. One of the biggest mistakes that I think people make is just not cooking things to the correct doneness at the right temperatures and times. Often people think that a fancy mix of spices and seasonings is what is important. I grew up not liking chicken or pork or steak unless it was in something because I had never had perfectly cooked chicken, pork chops, or steaks it was always cooked to well done and so dry you needed steak sauce. My parents grew up in an era where everyone feared undercooked meat. especially pork. And it's such a shame because I grew up on a cattle ranch. We would butcher a cow for ourselves every year. Grass fed, but lean, and butcher to thin steaks because you can cook them to saw dust a lot quicker that way. Now, I get beef from the ranch after fattening and have it butchered to steaks at least an inch thick and I always cook with a thermometer and usually just salt. A well done vs medium rare steak is such a night and day difference. Same with pork and chicken, although I prefer them both a little closer to medium.
Well done! I mean you got out of the fire and into the fat. Sorry. Oh, I so feel for those sacrificial cows, if they knew how their corporeal selves would be so disrespected.
"I always cook with a thermometer" Not bad, not bad at all, but! I just hardwood grilled another Choice 1" thick steak cut from a full rib roast which was aged a week. Woulda done two weeks but I got hungry. I thought about the thermometer because I wanted perfect (for us 115F, burnt outside, warm inside) but the finger press worked perfect as a doneness detector. Fresh ground Telicherry pepper, salt, and a light marinade of Worcestershire Sauce made for a truly memorable meal. Had some today left over: pepper, salt, and little Worcestershire to moisten it all up. Outstanding. Still gonna go the full two weeks next time.
Now let us talk fish. Or seafood in general. Somebody like Pepín knows how to do those too, and it's quite simple: intensely fresh, cooked to barely done, which is different for say salmon and tuna or an oyster vs. grouper and flounder or freshwater bass or a lobster. No need for fancy sauces or seasonings (blackening, I'm looking at you).
When cooking for family the pork and chicken are still moist and tender, but with guests and modern sourcing they get the dry shoe and a great sauce unfortunately.
I see a lot of people focusing on Julia's videos (and videos in general) but I don't think those were her major contribution. Translating the French culinary curriculum into US vernacular measurements and sourcing, via the books, was her contribution. I stand in awe at how good they are, so many decades later.
I mean this question sincerely: Is it normal to be handling raw chicken and then just stick your fingers into a bowl of salt like that?
I know I am a pretty poor cook, and I get somewhat nervous handling raw meat, probably more than I should be. They say always use a separate cutting board and wash your hands with hot soapy water after handling raw meat. Then I see cooking clips like this one, with experts who have just one continuous cutting board with everything on it, and this guy isn't afraid to be touching is raw meat at all.
You probably shouldn't, but most bacteria can't survive on or in a very salty environment. Realistically, it's probably not incredibly dangerous or anything.
> Then I see cooking clips like this one, with experts who have just one continuous cutting board with everything on it, and this guy isn't afraid to be touching is raw meat at all.
If everything you're cutting is going to be cooked, then you don't really need to worry IMO. Anything like veggies for a salad, or stuff that won't be cooked, should be cut on a washed cutting board though.
You have to be careful with videos of chefs cooking, because they often don't eat the exact thing that they're filming. The finished dish you see at the end or showed off might be cooked at a different time (usually beforehand) and in a far more sanitary way. What you're seeing is filmed that way for the sake of doing less dishes.
"You have to be careful with videos of chefs cooking, because they often don't eat the exact thing that they're filming. The finished dish you see at the end or showed off might be cooked at a different time (usually beforehand) and in a far more sanitary way. What you're seeing is filmed that way for the sake of doing less dishes."
I cannot emphasize this view enough: The problem with cooking videos is, "what did they edit?". If the video doesn't at least slide a little homage to the peon peeling the onions, can you trust it? If not, I don't!
I didn't watch the video but what I usually do if I need to salt meat is to pour the salt separately into a bowl and salt as needed, then use that same salt on food that gets cooked with the meat while the rest goes into the trash. With experience you don't waste much. More often than not salting associated veggies uses it up and I need more for the veggies.
The short answer is: Apple would give away control of their products if they did.
Enterprise/Corporate/Govt all have tedious amounts of niche needs and requirements to endlessly grow.
Can’t find the quote as I’m on my phone, but when a former exec from Apple left and joined a corp, and asked Steve if he wanted to expand to corporate, he said he won’t stop him, but he isn’t going to help him either. (I’m sure I butchered it), but something like that.
Private meetings are fine. No issue there. The judge however, erred. He should've never allowed the disclosure to not be disclosed. You can redact information that is harmful to the state, or is not relevant to the case, but in this case, the fact that the system that was being used as the basis of detection of fraud, was in itself being audited, should've meant that it was to be included and disclosed to defense.
In my non-lawyer opinion, the judge is the one that erred, and it is compounded that this matter came up in a private meeting without defense, thereby supporting the idea that private meetings should never be had, when there are always exceptions for them.
Perhaps in the UK, but in the US a private meeting is not fine. The term is ex parte and in most states if it isn't outright banned it's highly discouraged.
Pretty much the only time it's allowed is when there's classified information in the mix, and for that there's a huge process beforehand to make sure the defense has access to enough information to make their defense.
This article presents a very odd version of what happened. Simon Clarke was the lawyer that actually stopped the Post Office prosecutions as soon as he got involved.
In this case he went to the judge and said he was aware of the existence of a report that needed to be disclosed, but it could not be given to anyone (including Simon Clarke) until the report had been presented to parliament. The judge granted the exemption for 8 weeks, after which the report was provided to the defense.
This makes sense, because one of the more famous colonies that the Phoenicians established was Carthage, which is modern day Tunis. Since they had already invented creating purple back in Phoenicia (modern day Lebanon), they simply brought over their traditions/skills along.
I have a DVD from 2004 about them, as I did the National Genographic Project DNA test way back before it was popular, but I must admit, the DVD is so-so. I think afterwards, they got more and more data, and were able to track where they travelled to based on artifacts and DNA. Lots of websites about them, but hard to say what is what. I would trust information by Dr. Pierre Zalloua as he uses DNA analysis for his research into the Phoenicians.
Perfectly fine to buy cars that were rentals. I bought my Mazda 5 used and it came from Enterprise car rental. Still have it now and it’s 9 years old. Nobody aggressively drives a Mazda 5, so we knew it was less likely to have been abused, versus a Mustang.
We tried buying used again, but the deals are terrible. For the first time in my life, had to buy a new car. The days of a 2 year old car, with 60,000 km (37,000 miles) with a 45% discount are gone. We found it was like 15% to 20% discount for 2 year old card…we were only looking at Subaru Foresters in Canada.
I don’t know enough about Teslas, but being ignorant, they are giving you about 50% off a 3 or 4 year old car. It’s on the borderline of a good deal for both parties on paper, but what repairs do you need after 4 years? If the battery needs fixing in 4 years how much is it? Those kind of costs could kill this hot deal. Either way, the math needs to be done. Oh, and you’re probably going to need new tires. Used cars are notorious for coming with crap nearly dead tires. So add that to the price.
After they fixed the head gasket issues of the 2000s or so, they seem to be fine? My partner, myself, most of my friends, and may of my coworkers, and much of my town drives them. They're insanely popular in outdoorsy and snowy areas. The article scores them decently high in reliability too.
I'd never get a WRX though.
Build quality and ride comfort though, not so much. They're rough and tumble machines, not luxury sedans (well, the Legacy is nice enough, not seems silly to get that over a Toyota).
Speaking of Toyota, they own part of Subaru anyway and have collaborated with them on a few dual-branded vehicles.
I've had a half dozen or so Subaru's and have had little trouble with any of them. Currently we have a '17 Forester we bought new currently with 120k miles on it and just last week I picked up a used '21 Ascent.
The Forester has been though two batteries and just last week I had a wheel bearing in the rear replaced. No other trouble and still runs fine.
I got the Ascent to keep out in Seattle and that'll be my car there -- it'll fit right in -- Subaru seems to make up about 30% of cars in the Seattle area.
It's worth noting that as of 2020, Subaru is running an entirely new platform for their cars, and it has been remarkably solid. The FA24 engine, in particular, appears to be running unusually generous tolerances for things like cylinder pressure, oil pressure, manifold pressure/temps, etc.
For tuners it's been a box of wonders. For ordinary consumers, that maps directly to reliability.
If you google around, you'll see mention of head gasket problems in association with Subaru. This issue has been resolved for the better part of 20 years. Today, the intersection of people who blow up Subaru engines and people who drive like drunk, teenage morons is effectively a perfect circle.
Whoever did these "bad" redactions doesn't even know how to use a PDF Editor.
We have paralegals and lawyers "mark for redaction", then review the documents, then "apply redactions". It's literally be done by thousands of lawyers/paralegals for decades. This is just someone not following the process and procedure, and making mistakes. It's actually quite amateurish. You should never, ever screw up redactions if you follow the proper process. Good on the X-ray project on trying to find errors.
I just want to add, applying black highlights on top of text is in fact, the "old" way of redaction, as it was common to do this, and then simply print the paper with the black bars, and send the paper as the final product.
Whoever did it is probably old, and may have done it thinking they were going to print it on paper afterwards!! Just guessing as to why someone would do this.