Who smeared Richard Feynman?
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Who smeared Richard Feynman?
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Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?
#2Is there any type-set technology on proving possibilities for redacted texts?
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#3Enjoyed the article liked the 'lofi' images with typewriter text, am using the smear image as wallpaper.
Would it not be entirely in character if Feynman had picked up echos of the profiling process and smeared himself? Obviously can't be this letter.
Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?
#4Is there any type-set technology on proving possibilities for redacted texts?
Typewriter text is fixed width, so I imagine they get an average width for one character then calculate the number of characters in each redacted bit.
What had you in mind?
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#5Is there any type-set technology on proving possibilities for redacted texts?
Typewriter text is fixed width, so I imagine they get an average width for one character then calculate the number of characters in each redacted bit. What had you in mind?
Interestingly, although it seems harder, this sort of analysis is much more reliable with proportional fonts, because the specific width of the gap narrows the number of possibilities down considerably.
Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?
#6Is there any type-set technology on proving possibilities for redacted texts?
Typewriter text is fixed width, so I imagine they get an average width for one character then calculate the number of characters in each redacted bit. What had you in mind?
You don't really even need to measure widths, since they fall in a grid. Just count the number of characters directly above or below the redacted passage. (For fixed-width, I mean.)
Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?
#7> Through the years that he has been at the California Institute of Technology (REDACTED) he has in my opinion made a definite point of knowing well and cultivating such persons as the president of California Institute of Technology, the dean of the school of physics, department heads (including REDACTED and Linus Pauling), regents of California Institute of Technology, as well as REDACTED.
Well it shouldn't be too much detective work to figure out what Caltech department head Feynman was buddy buddy with other than Pauling. They seemed to feel need to redact the name for some reason.
From all of the references to Caltech implying a personal knowledge of the school, to the continual references to Feynman being a religious skeptic and critical of Republicans, I'd guess this letter was written by a conservative working at Caltech. It would make sense in terms of the initial FBI contact, the acquaintanceship but not friendship with Feynman etc.
Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?
#8It seems like there needs to be another approach to redacting text like this. This one doesn't really cut it, apparently. And slips such as 'her' and 'she' was what primarily gave her away here. So the people who published the file should have been way more careful with this.
Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?
#9It seems like there needs to be another approach to redacting text like this. This one doesn't really cut it, apparently. And slips such as 'her' and 'she' was what primarily gave her away here. So the people who published the file should have been way more careful with this.
Flash forward to modern times...
"It's okay, we're only collecting metadata."
Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?
#10It seems like there needs to be another approach to redacting text like this. This one doesn't really cut it, apparently. And slips such as 'her' and 'she' was what primarily gave her away here. So the people who published the file should have been way more careful with this.
Yes, which is to not redact text. As you have already found, it is an exceedingly complex problem to do it correctly. But more importantly, when it is done incorrectly, or redactions are made from political motivations (as we've seen excessive evidence of), they are practically impossible to challenge.