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They failed to redact data. That's it. People just read the files afterwards, only formatting was wierd.


If you unlock a lock, that's still a lock.

Also, in light of everything that is happening, is incredible that the top comment on this thread is about some minor semantic definitions.


Yeah but there was no lock; somebody put a box around the doorknob without anything holding it there, and somebody removed the box and opened the door.


There's nothing else to say about this. Also, your comment is nested even deeper within the same semantic squabbling, so it's odd that you think that it's a waste of time in light of more important things that you are also not talking about.


And it is still a lock if it was just hanging there and not actually locked as in this case.


They're likely viewing the electronic documents by analogy to photocopies with blacked out sections where there is nothing to distinguish the text from the redacting marks and nothing you can project out. They don't know the structure of the file format and how information in it is encoded or rendered, or even that there is a distinction between encoding and rendering.

(A better analogy might be the original physical document with redaction marks. If the text is printed using a laser printer or a type writer, and the marker used for redaction uses some other kind of ink - let's say one that doesn't dissolve the text's ink or toner in any way - then you can in principle distinguish between the two and thus recover visibility of the text.)


To complicated, the people doing the redacting pasted digital stickers ontop of the text, people are just removing the stickers.


File formats are complicated. The only reliable way to redact is to reduce that complication to one which humans can manage. This is even true for software that is written by humans.

Plain text and flat images are my preferred formats for things which must be redacted. Images require a slight bit of special care, as the example in the underhanded C contest highlights, but it's possible to enforce visible redaction and transcription steps that destroy hidden information.


I think that doesn’t do the scenario justice. They tried to redact and did so in a way that looks visibly redacted (in screenshots many have seen) but can be uncovered.

If you say “they failed to redact data” to a layperson looking at a visibly redacted document they’re going to be confused.


What if the person promising the first thing is not the person doing the second thing?


But they litterally are doing this. And also EU made them make it free for EU citizens so its free in EU and 30$ in the rest of the world afaik. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-up...


Yes, it's free for one year if you sign into an MS account.


Which makes it not free.


You have to log into w11 anyways as a must, no avoiding it. Sure you wouldnt call this free from purist perspective but from consumer perspective it is


I thought you could install w11 offline



It's not free, it's gratis.


You know exactly what I mean.


Yes, and you're wrong. You're still paying for it.


eastern europe (EU) is absolute best


arent paid public restrooms commonplace in eu?


Certainly are in Germany. Many even give you a small coupon in return, so you can spend more money at the overpriced gas station kiosk.


I just hope they sell off Alfa Romeo who knows what to do with the brand. Who the hell wants Alfa Romeo at BMW prices? The whole history has been selling affordable sport cars. They cancelled Giulietta and don't even plan on having a car in that segment. Tonale and Junior look horrible. The brand DNA all but died


you position it vertically against something in bed and keep it close enough (half a meter) so that its practically same size as tv which is 4-5 meters away and you enjoy the pixels. i love doing this few times a week when im going to sleep or just chilling


Hmm ok, for me a phone at 50cm is way smaller than a TV but mine is also not 5m away. In bed I usually use my meta quest in lie down mode.


Because at that time an engineering degree still had some weight because not everyone can get it. This inflation 9f degrees caused the degrees to have way less value only for the next generation


From what I read he doesn't ask whether someone is busy but only acknowledges they know they are busy and moves on with the pitch


Croatia is having its "bully" tourism phase. They have been historically super cheap and undiscovered location up until 5-10 years ago and now that they are in EU and Schengen and it's actually nicer than some bigger mediterranean countries everyone started piling in. The locals which aren't really business savvy started doubling/tripling prices to see how far it can go without providing additional services or raising the quality to another level. From business perspective it does make actual sense since last few seasons after corona have been breaking records every year. Until there are actual consequences for raising per night booking prices from 100€ to 200€ from year to year nothing will change. I think that the reality is that people "in the know" like polish/chech families are being priced out because traditionally they didn't have as many western european tourists like Dutch or French and now it's on their radar


> think that the reality is that people "in the know" like polish/chech families are being priced out

Not really. They are not poor anymore, and can afford it. But quality is just not there compared to Italy, Greece, Egypt...

Only benefit for Polish and Czech tourist, they understand local language.


I would be wary with "Slavic familiarity" while visiting. Slavs in Balkans furiously hate each other. It's safer to speak German or English.


Right, but that was mostly the issue of all the former Yugoslavia nations.

Czechs 1) were not a part of Yugoslavia 2) have a long tradition of visiting the Adriatic sea.

    They are not poor anymore, and can afford it.
The price increase in Croatia in the last few years is insane, especially near the tourist spots (= seaside). Czech people who want to save some money now usually turn to the other Balkan countries that are still quite cheap.


Last time I visited Croatia the summer two years before adopting EUR and all hospitality services wanted EUR. When I requested prices in kuna they were dismissive with "just convert from EUR to kuna in Google". I could easily spend less money while in Italy, Spain, or Greece. They aspire to place themselves as Switzerland of Adriatic, mostly for Germanic speaking tourists. Who wouldn't want to charge Swiss prices, duh. I say good luck Croats!


Yeah, Euro was widely accepted even before the country switched to it. But the prices were much lower.


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