Avoid Super-Embarrassing Redaction Failures
Eugene Volokh | 9.23.2025 6:51 PM
[I posted a version of this post in 2020 and 2024, but I've seen the problem enough since to think it was worth mentioning again.]
I have often run across documents written by lawyers that looked redacted—but all the supposedly secret information in them could be extracted with literally three keystrokes (ctrl-A, ctrl-C, ctrl-V). One was a court filing that was filed pursuant to a court order authorizing the redaction; but the material........
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