The Danger of Pseudo-Redaction
Many high-profile data leaks occurred because staff simply drew a black shape over sensitive text in standard drawing software. A recipient could select the text beneath the shape, copy it, and paste it into a text file!True Redaction vs Surface Shapes:
- Pseudo Redaction: Places a colored rectangle above text. Text data remains in the underlying stream. - True Redaction: Deletes the text stream entirely from the PDF vector code and replaces the region with solid black pixels.Sanitize your sensitive documents with Redact PDF.