> Some officials use a software programme such as Photoshop to paste a black patch over secret text, obscuring it but not removing it. When documents are edited in this way, normal home or office software can disclose the obscured text.
Ahha! Yet another unquantifiable-but-potentially-very-expensive mistake caused by users assuming their tool was WYSIWYG when really it did more than that.
A similar thing happened last year, when someone "leaked" documents regarding Macron in the French election. Opening said documents in any professional PDF viewer showed the layers on top of the original photo, exposing it as a fake.
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> Some officials use a software programme such as Photoshop to paste a black patch over secret text, obscuring it but not removing it. When documents are edited in this way, normal home or office software can disclose the obscured text.
Ahha! Yet another unquantifiable-but-potentially-very-expensive mistake caused by users assuming their tool was WYSIWYG when really it did more than that.
A similar thing happened last year, when someone "leaked" documents regarding Macron in the French election. Opening said documents in any professional PDF viewer showed the layers on top of the original photo, exposing it as a fake.
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