Xray
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“state-of-the-art (from 20 years ago) tracing schemes like XRay”
“Or set up Xray[0] with the captive portal as domain if you have a VPS”
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“you should set up XRay first and peer over that”
“even some designed to detect bad redactions in PDFs via drag and drop”
Caveats and dissent
“seems like there are no problems to block it based on ip reputation + tls fingerprint + amount of connections”
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“We currently use a hybrid polling approach rather than a pure event-driven one.”
“I made X-ray to analyze the millions of documents we have in CourtListener”
Threads where it came up
- X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents 3 mentions
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Also written as X-ray, x-ray, XRay. Data: xray.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“state-of-the-art (from 20 years ago) tracing schemes like XRay”
“seems like there are no problems to block it based on ip reputation + tls fingerprint + amount of connections”
“Or set up Xray[0] with the captive portal as domain if you have a VPS”
“you should set up XRay first and peer over that”
“Yep, bingo:”
“even some designed to detect bad redactions in PDFs via drag and drop”
Not to mention some PDF editors preserve previous edits in the PDF file itself, which people also seems unaware of. A bit more user friendly description of the feature without having to read the specification itself: https://developers.foxit.com/developer-hub/document/incremental-updates/
“Free Law Project also has this open source tool to detect bad redactions: https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray”