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The art of saying 'trust me' with a black marker.
means The act of editing a document by removing or blacking out sensitive or confidential parts before it's released.
from From Latin 'redigere' — to drive back, bring together, reduce — via 'redactus,' the past participle. For centuries 'redact' simply meant to edit or draw up a document into final form (an editor who redacted a text was just preparing it for publication). The narrower, inkier sense — blacking out secrets rather than polishing prose — is a modern narrowing, driven largely by government and legal documents released with chunks blacked out for security or privacy.
- origin
- from Latin redigere, 'to bring back' or compile
- irony
- often reveals shape of secret via box size
- security fail
- text under black bars has been copy-pasted before
- legal use
- courts allow redaction without full document destruction