Message ID: 368686
Posted By: al_petrofsky
Posted On: 2006-04-29 16:52:00
Subject: Redaction issues with electronic filing

Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:46:16 -0700
From: Al Petrofsky< al@petrofsky.org>
To: Magistrate Judge David Nuffer< mj.nuffer@utd.uscourts.gov>
CC: Todd Shaughnessy< tshaughnessy@swlaw.com>
Subject: Redaction issues with electronic filing

Your Honor,

With the impending flood of inexperienced electronic filers starting with the rule change on Monday, I would like to suggest that you write something on your blog at utd-cmecf.blogspot.com about the pitfalls of redacting electronic documents.

As an example of how easily things can go wrong, yesterday in SCO Group v. IBM, 2:03cv294, IBM filed a redacted declaration (docket #672) that failed to properly redact anything. Although white block-out rectangles were placed over some pieces of text, the text can easily be recovered. (One method to do so, using the standard Adobe PDF viewer, is to select the redacted text with the mouse, copy it to the system clipboard, and then paste it into a word processor.)

Here is a selection of relevant references, from spooks, nerds, and clerks:

1. "Redacting with Confidence: How to Safely Publish Sanitized Reports Converted From Word to PDF",
National Security Agency, Report #I333-015R-2005, February 2, 2006.
http://www.nsa.gov/snac/vtechrep/I333-TR-015R-2005.PDF

2. "Redaction of Confidential Information in Electronic Documents",
Adobe Systems (creators of the PDF format), Technical Note, 2006.
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/Redaction.pdf

3. "Redaction of Information",
United States District Court, District of Northern California,
Web site tip, May 2, 2005.
http://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/faq/tips/redacting.htm

Yours,

Al Petrofsky


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Message ID: 369054
Posted By: al_petrofsky
Posted On: 2006-05-01 12:06:00
Subject: Re: Redaction issues with electronic fil

A journalist with a judicial background has a new entry on his blog today:

http://utd-cmecf.blogspot.com/2006/05/redaction-warnings.html


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