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Comment by Arch-TK

It sets a bad precedent to call things like this hacks.

Firstly, calling this redaction implies that the data is missing, and calling what was done "unredacting" is akin to saying someone "decrypted" a cryptographic hash function.

Nobody unredacted anything here, they merely discovered that it hadn't been redacted, and simply looked like it was redacted.

Calling this a hack places responsibility on the people who discovered the information, rather than on the people were put in charge of handling the redaction and screwed it up.

parent Arch-TK 10 months ago

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