alt Hacker NewsYou process doesn't make sense, why wouldn't you just black box redact right away and print and scan? What does underline then ink give you? But it's also not the process described in the blog
> that's very difficult to unintentionally screw up.
You've already screwed up by leaking length and risking errors in manual search&replace
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The blog has no relevance to your claim that the print and scan procedure somehow fundamentally precludes automated search and replace. I refuted that. You remain free to perform automated search and replace prior to printing the document. You also have the flexibility to perform manual redactions both digitally as well as physically with ink.
It's clearly a superior process that provides ease of use, ease of understanding, and is exceedingly difficult to screw up. Barr's DoJ should be commended for having selected a procedure that minimizes the risk of systemic failure when carried out by a collection of people with such diverse technical backgrounds and competence levels.
Notably, had the same procedure been followed for the Epstein files then the headline we are currently commenting under presumably wouldn't exist.
It gets you the non-existance of a PDF full of reversible black boxes.
Can't leak a file that doesn't exist.
> why wouldn't you just black box redact right away and print and scan? What does underline then ink give you?
These are roughly equivalent. The point is having a hard copy in between the digital ones.