• Scratch@sh.itjust.works
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    27 days ago

    This has happened before. Back when I used to browse the armpit of the internet there were classified military docs that had the same technique used.

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      26 days ago

      I find it funny that it took a few days for this to come out. That’s the very first thing I try if I see a big black box censoring something in a PDF or webpage is highlight to see if there’s text under there (practice from reading SCP Wiki and various forums with fun formatting options). Heck I randomly highlight as I read enough I’d probably even find that it was incorrectly redacted without even trying

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          26 days ago

          I honestly could be misremembering. I swear I remember seeing somewhere that fake redacted stuff for flavoring/humor

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        26 days ago

        The first set (with nothing but blacked out pages) was properly redacted and in-fact contained no text data whatsoever. I think this is from the more recent files including the ones that were accidentally uploaded and pulled an hour later.