John GruberJul 20, 2025

Some people do crosswords. I fill in redacted names.

The redacted email screenshot in Apple's lawsuit against Michael Ramacciotti and Jon Prosser was set in Arial (of fucking course). So I pixel-fitted the font size and used red text to superimpose the redacted names, along with surrounding words, to show which names fit the redactions exactly:

Show threadMarsh RayJul 20, 2025
@gruber Those are the only possible names that fit in that number of (sub)pixels, or were they chosen from a short list?
Show threadJohn Gruber
@marshray I can't say they're the only names that fix exactly. It turns out, for example, that “Ethan" and “Lipnik" are *precisely* the same width in Arial, regarding the short redaction in the final sentence.
Jul 21, 2025 at 12:03amIvory for Mac
Show threadEric StephanJul 25, 2025
@gruber @marshray yeah, it is a statistical question, how common is it for two names to have the same pixel length. Without that info we don't know how much info your red letter process did or did not give.