>Please change the title.

HN discourages editorializing headlines.

While I wouldn't call it a "hack," common usage even here on HN isn't limited to "to gain illegal access to (a computer network, system, etc.)" [0]

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hack

If I open your laptop and guess your password then that counts as hacking you in both legal and security terms

You don't need to do some sophisticated thing for it to be considered hacking

Hacking is any use of a technology in a way that it wasn’t intended. The redaction is so stupid as to almost appear intentional, so maybe you’re right, this isn’t hacking because maybe the information was intended to be discovered.

Yes, this is the digital equivalent of sticking a blank Post-it over text and calling it “redacted”. Mind-boggling that the same mistake has been made over and over again.

Also had this first thought, but then a hack could just be a way around a limit/lack of authorization, doesn't have to be unknown/sophisticated, so copy of black boxes fits

It's being "undone with the lamest hack known to mankind."

Still technically a hack.

And the title should briefly describe the “hack” as well

Not the only thing hack means now, or the most common usage anymore. See "life hack" - it means unexpected technique.