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Why do I keep expecting the US government to be remotely competent at anything?
Propaganda i guess, the evidence for incompetence has been right there for decades and it keeps getting easier to find.
To be fair it’s genuinely a super common mistake. I see redacted documents often at work (I do nothing fancy, just some privacy policy thing we deal with) and on like 30% of the documents we get you can either just highlight the underlying text or literally click and drag the black box off of the words lol.
I guess what happens is people can redact it such that they can no longer see it in their particular pdf software but then a different software can bypass it
That's pretty charitable. I've worked civil service many years ago and the computer skills of some of them were beyond laughable. I never dealt with redacted documents during that stint of my life but I can say with 100% certainty that I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if someone "redacted" a document by making the text and background highlight color black and posting the Word
docxfile online.