Exactly. I dabble in competitive assessment and the amount of times weve got competitors data because they didnt flatten a file is astounding. The one we try every time with moderate success is checking every picture to see if you can “uncrop” it. So many times the rest of the picture is actually in the file and the crop is just for display purposes. Most of the time the rest of the photo is useless, but ill never forget the time we got the whole process map for their upcoming production schedule
I wish the people who found that would’ve kept their mouths shut until 100% is released
They’re never going to be 100% released.
Unfortunately with an error so egregious, the amount of people who found that near instantly was probably in the thousands
Exactly. I dabble in competitive assessment and the amount of times weve got competitors data because they didnt flatten a file is astounding. The one we try every time with moderate success is checking every picture to see if you can “uncrop” it. So many times the rest of the picture is actually in the file and the crop is just for display purposes. Most of the time the rest of the photo is useless, but ill never forget the time we got the whole process map for their upcoming production schedule
That sounds like a pretty cool job, do you have any other stories you could share?
FWIW they’ve always been bad at redacting things, this has happened before with other documents IIRC