sebbacon/alaveteli — Issue #277: Email Redaction Failure in PDF
Author: RichardTaylor
Created: 2011-10-19 15:53:48+00:00
State: open

@WhatDoTheyKnow.com request email addresses have not been automatically redacted from the PDFs at:

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ilr_applicants_before_2007#incoming-219271

The addresses were harvested by spammers who sent junk to the thread.

Reason for failure in this instance could do with being investigated.

Perhaps even if the whole address can't be matched in the PDF we should look for smaller bits of it; as even mangling it would achieve the aim of not letting the request addresses escape.