2. Republican billionaires were almost certainly redacted in releases or withheld in documents not released.
3. I'm curious how many documents are/were incompletely redacted with filled rectangles rather than text removal such as using the Adobe tool. And, I wonder if any incomplete redactions are/were purposeful to leak while maintaining plausible deniability.
4. If/when Trump leaves office, with the behaviors exhibited thus far, it seems the remaining precious documents will go with him (or to his next of kin should he leave horizontally) to maintain power over others and that "victim security" is a duplicitous smokescreen.
Yeah I’ve wondered this too. As dumb as some of the people doing redactions might be, I still think they would’ve learned from previous botched redactions that you can’t leave the real text underneath the black box. Unless they weren’t trying to.
As for burning - if they really possessed these extra special exploits that allowed monitoring of even supposedly disconnected or disabled devices, each instance of its use would expose them to a slim, but nonzero chance of that exploit being discovered, especially if it required communicating with that phone directly. In this situation it would be wise to limit the use of this to actually important targets, to avoid revealing their advantage by using these unconventional methods (as opposed to normal cellular, wifi or GPS-based tracking) on random protestors.
*trilateration