Fri, 14 May 2004

Student uncovers US military secrets

What a brilliant bit of "hacking" ... get a "redacted" document, the kind with some words blacked out, meausre the font size and pitch, then apply text analysis to find words that would fit in the space. There's a limited set off English (or any other languages words) that will do so - make your selection and viola: plain text!

'Felt-tip pen' censorship cracked

(link) [The Register]

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