On: Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File

[argumentum]

Nonetheless, we'll get to see how much is redacted and therefore how much they want to hide. That's valuable information in and of itself.

[phillmv → argumentum]

I predict his file will be incredibly boring/banal stuff, with the odd wild conjecture. The blacked out parts will consist entirely of things embarrassing to the agents who compiled it.

[jlgreco → argumentum]

I wonder if it would be legal for them to throw on a few extra all-black pages as "padding".

Not worth it obviously, but it would be an amusing hack.

[phaus → jlgreco]

Like a couple pages of redacted "This page intentionally left blank"?

[jlgreco → phaus]

Yeah, exactly! You'd have to redact the blankness of course, otherwise people would know what it was.. ;)

[benatkin → argumentum]

Either way, they get to collect IP addresses of those who try to view it.

[phaus → argumentum]

It would have the potential to be valuable in the future, if nefarious acts came to light via some other method, because it would potentially show that possibly illegal actions were taken to hide the information. However, if nothing actionable is ever discovered about this case, then the redacted documents would be completely worthless. Only time will tell.

[popee → argumentum]

Metadata :-)