What's your other hobby ?
playing LPs backwards ?
Diablo fingered in offensive ASCII art trial doc shock
Editing an image of redacted document included in the Netlist-Diablo trial appears to show a raised middle finger ASCII graphic. Michael Takefman is a chief architect for Diablo Technologies. In one redacted court document extract we have seen, a blacked-out graphic reveals a text representation of a middle-finger gesture when …
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Wednesday 11th March 2015 12:41 GMT adnim
Re: What's your other hobby ?
Jimmy is that you?
Why are you ignoring all my stalk mails.
As for the article... being self employed and in a business of one employee, all my emails have a disclaimer that the content... "might not be the view of the company" etc. I am thinking of adding I might be angry/pissed when sending this so take any disparaging remarks as tongue in cheek and ask again when I am sober.
The devil is not always in the detail... Sometimes it is in the interpretation
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Wednesday 11th March 2015 22:56 GMT TeeCee
Ah. You must have missed it a few years ago when Her Majesty's Government shipped a load of redacted docs as PDFs.
Copy 'n paste as text sans formatting into your Word Processor of choice and presto, instant de-redaction. None of yer fancy fannying around with contrast 'n such required there. The example in this article is, by comparison to the efforts of our Civil Servants, the work of intellectual colossi.
Paris, someone else who knows all about secrets getting out over teh intatoobs.
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Thursday 12th March 2015 02:06 GMT e_is_real_i_isnt
A key element of redaction is Adobe makes a tool specifically for that purpose that really does wipe the text out. Often people think drawing a black box is sufficient. In real documents, blacking out is followed by making a photocopy; otherwise the original is still legible by the difference in shininess, or bleaching (toner is plastic and doesn't bleach.)
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Thursday 12th March 2015 04:01 GMT veti
What makes that particular goof so galling is that HMG keeps doing it - the same cock-up, time after time. The last story I can find is from 2011, but that references another incident about six months earlier, and I first remember it happening way back around 2000.
Seriously, what does it take to make them learn?
Or maybe it's deliberate, a way of "leaking misinformation to your enemies". Actually that sounds disturbingly plausible, it's about the level of subtlety I'd expect from the MoD.
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Wednesday 11th March 2015 14:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
Funnily enough, an (arguably) more elegant way of getting offensiveness in text
uses the good old fashioned Acrostic
cunningly (or actually not very cunningly ) concealed words appear if
keen eyes view the message
You just need to be certain that your test isn't going to overrun the line space
otherwise the unintended line breaks will bugger up your message making it
useless
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Wednesday 11th March 2015 22:47 GMT Alan Brown
part of the problem
Is that laywers will claim intent for a message which bears no relationship at all to what was actually intended.
I've seen it several times.
The old saw about asking a lawyer "What is two plus two?" and getting the answer "What would you like it to be?" is chillingly accurate, not a joke.
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Thursday 12th March 2015 10:58 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Go Buckeyes!!!
Hmm. Seems like there are many derivatives. But google this...
The image was of young Mikey Wilson, then five-years-old, taken by Reuters photographer Jasper Juinen. It was taken just before the 2002 UEFA final between Feyenoord and Borussia of Dortmund Germany.
I think the OSU you mention is a cut and paste job. As is the Durham used on this article.
In the original you can see some other photos from different angles.
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