Security News > 2020 > October > Reverse-Engineering the Redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition
2020-10-27 11:34
Slate magazine was able to cleverly read the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition and reverse-engineer many of the redacted names. We’ve long known that redacting is hard in the modern age, but most of the failures to date have been a result of not realizing that covering digital text with a black bar doesn’t always remove the text from the underlying digital file. As far as I know, this reverse-engineering technique is new. EDITED TO ADD: A similar technique was used in 1991 to recover the Dead Sea Scrolls.