RE: Redacted document security in Adobe Acrobat

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Dan Goldstein wrote: 
 
> TSA is obviously headline material, but this isn't just a government
> issue. Many companies use Acrobat to redact commercially sensitive or
> confidential information (pricing, algorithms, Protected Health
> Information, etc.) before sending out a document.
> 
> As someone at TSA learned today, just adding a black box over the
> sensitive text in Acrobat isn't enough to protect the document.

Anyone who thinks that covering sensitive text with a black box is
"redacting" is utterly incompetent. 

But then, we're talking about government bureaucrats, aren't we? :-) 


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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