Posted by ComputerGuru 1 day ago
It's really really hard to give them the benefit of the doubt at this point.
Unlike every other PDF format that has been attempted, the federal government doesn't have to worry about adoption.
It’s not a tools problem, it’s a problem of malicious compliance and contempt for the law.
Cool article, however.
The recipient is also named in there...
The search on the DOJ website (which we shouldn't trust), given the query: "Content-Type: application/pdf; name=", yields maybe a half dozen or so similarly printed BASE64 attachments.
There's probably lots of images as well attached in the same way (probably mostly junk). I deleted all my archived copies recently once I learned about how not-quite-redacted they were. I will leave that exercise to someone else.
A dynamic programming type approach might still be helpful. One version or other of the character might produce invalid flate data while the other is valid, or might give an implausible result.