{"id":280,"date":"2004-05-09T14:33:36","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T18:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/05\/09\/un-redact-attack-culture-theft\/"},"modified":"2004-05-09T14:33:36","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T18:33:36","slug":"un-redact-attack-culture-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/05\/09\/un-redact-attack-culture-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Un-redact Attack \/ Culture Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a283'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Another link, courtesy of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\">BoingBoing<\/A>: researchers have been able to use a computer program to <A href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-7348_3-5209016.html?tag=nefd.top\">un-blacken redacted material<\/A> in the DoD memos, to show that&nbsp;they reported that Egypt and South Korea helped the Iraqis.&nbsp; Yay, for transparency!&nbsp; This is how it works:<\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P>The program rejected all of the words that were not within three pixels of the length of the word that was probably under the blacked-out area in the document.he program rejected all of the words that were not within three pixels of the length of the word that was probably under the blacked-out area in the document.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The software then reduced the number of possible words to just seven from 1,530 by using semantic guidelines, including the grammatical context. The researchers selected the word &#8220;Egyptian&#8221; from the seven possible words, rejecting &#8220;Ukrainian&#8221; and &#8220;Ugandan,&#8221; because those countries would be less likely to have such information.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\">**<\/P><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\">On an entirely separate note, I now have another reason to <STRONG>hate<\/STRONG> McDonald&#8217;s; they just trademarked the phrase, &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.i-am-asian.com\">I am Asian<\/A>.&#8221;&nbsp; Give me back my identity, B*!&nbsp; Someone, please&nbsp;start a petition about this now.&nbsp; I am never letting my Hapa kids eat there.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another link, courtesy of BoingBoing: researchers have been able to use a computer program to un-blacken redacted material in the DoD memos, to show that&nbsp;they reported that Egypt and South Korea helped the Iraqis.&nbsp; Yay, for transparency!&nbsp; This is how it works: The program rejected all of the words that were not within three pixels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}