If it's already scanned, then you don't have to leave your desk.
replyThe time advantage of faking a scan becomes better the more pages you have to scan.
replyIt's thousands of pages, surely investing some time in a script is faster. They were in a rush as well.
replyIf they were faking the documents rather than the delivery method they definitely could have invested some time in flawless looks.
Or more-realistic flawed looks as the case is here.
replyDepending on their technical capability, yes.
replyI mean even in this thread you got what are essentially one-liners to do it.
Definitely less hassle then doing it irl
I know I'm not the brightest bulb by any measure, but do some people really take less than at least a few minutes to come up with one-liners for problems as novel as graphical transformations to PDFs? Maybe if the presumed techie hacker / federal worker took it as an amusing challenge I could see this being done, but genuinely out of pure laziness? That's incredible if true.
replyIt's not a novel problem. But yes, I don't think people quite appreciate how quick and easy it is for people who are in the habit of brewing up one-liners to solve simple problems to do that. I've done it here on HN for jq toy problems before, and I don't really doubt there are people similarly familiar with imagemagick.
replyHoe big a percentage of FBI / DoJ employees are running linux (with imagemagick) as their work computer? I'd be surprised to see a similar oneliner for a stock windows installation.
replyYeah they might have used some web converter, but that on the other hand would have been extremely incompetent handling of the secret data.