Monday, May 10, 2004
I do find it a little surprising that no one in charge had thought of this...
Boing Boing: Pixel-counting can un-redact government docs: "Pixel-counting can un-redact government docs
A Luxembourgian/Irish security research team have presented a paper on a technique for identifying words that have been blacked out of documents, as when government docs are published with big strikethroughs over the bits that are sensitive to national security. The technique doesn't work on monospace fonts like Courier, but the State Department's recent font guidelines require that all docs be published in Times New Roman, which decodes like a charm."
