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by palijer 482 days ago
Why do we need to have the names of people like a random security guard that was duped by social engineering? To make sure he pays for a mistake or something? What is the reason for not reacting his name?
2 comments

I'm not concerned with names. It's entire paragraphs that may have names in them that are redacted. If it's just a name or address, redact that, sure.

"Called -------- on July 1st, 1983 to get access to a router"

Is much better than

"----------------------------------------------------------"

Unless we get an unredacted version leaked in the future it's impossible to say what the redacted paragraphs say, but this document has a ton of the former style of redaction which makes me trust that the larger redactions (ie page 42) were in fact necessary to protect PII as labeled.
> What is the reason for not reacting his name?

The reason is GP doesn't understand the reason, so there is no reason, so it must be made public. /s