A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF

Admittedly, it is also a crude but effective means of ensuring (beyond redaction) that nothing is released besides images of pages… but the redaction software available to DoJ (see below) is fully effective at redacting born-digital PDF files, so image conversion was unnecessary. Analysis: This fact implies that DoJ broke up the Mueller Report into subsections matching the bookmarks to allow a team to collaborate over adding redaction annotations to these subsections, then reassembling the document and outputting a finished, redacted PDF file. Analysis: I asked Mark Gavin, CTO of Appligent Document Solutions, and the developer of the first PDF redaction tool, for his comments on the redaction method used in the Mueller Report.

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