Not all of them are like this. At least one isn't.
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Zwiebel @feddit.org - 1day
Still
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Kairos - 1day
Yeah...
I should have gotten all the files when they first came out. Is there an archive somewhere? All I've looked at is the one file that was changed to black out trump sucking the nipples of an underage person. That one had the text data replaced with a "-" for each block.
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pelespirit @sh.itjust.works - 1day
Whaaaaaaa? I've never heard of this.
one file that was changed to black out trump sucking the nipples of an underage person.
Can't find the partially redacted version but the Epstein files are hard to search
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SantasMagicalComfort - 23hr
That reminds me of my marathon days.
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Kairos - 21hr
What
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brown567 @sh.itjust.works - 19hr
Shirt bounces up and down while running, makes nipples ouchie π
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SantasMagicalComfort - 20hr
Raw nipples.
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qaz - 1day
There's JMail which shows you his emails as of you're logged into his account. It also has other pages with files, photos, and even his Amazon purchase history.
I'm hoping for the old βit looks black until you select the text in the PDFβ snafu.
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SpaceNoodle @lemmy.world - 1day
reddit is the armpit. 4chan is the unwashed taint.
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Nfamwap - 22hr
So that makes Lemmy what? The smeggy bellend?
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SpaceNoodle @lemmy.world - 22hr
Only when you show up
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Nfamwap - 22hr
Huh, guess we don't do self deprecation
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SpaceNoodle @lemmy.world - 21hr
I don't think you're all of Lemmy.
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Obinice - 21hr
Actually that guy is all of Lemmy, the rest of us are a hive mind. Blorp blurrp
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coffee_tacos @mander.xyz - 17hr
Blorp blurrp
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cv_octavio - 11hr
I mean....the left nut, no?
I'll see myself out.
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ThrowawayPermanente @sh.itjust.works - 7hr
Actually in Europe it would be considered the center nut.
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Trainguyrom @reddthat.com - 22hr
I find it funny that it took a few days for this to come out. That's the very first thing I try if I see a big black box censoring something in a PDF or webpage is highlight to see if there's text under there (practice from reading SCP Wiki and various forums with fun formatting options). Heck I randomly highlight as I read enough I'd probably even find that it was incorrectly redacted without even trying
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AlternateHuman02 @lemmy.world - 22hr
You can do that for SCPs!? I have been reading that forever and now I feel dumb
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Anafabula @discuss.tchncs.de - 20hr
Some SCPs also have text with the same color as the background, if there is an oddly large space between text.
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Trainguyrom @reddthat.com - 22hr
I honestly could be misremembering. I swear I remember seeing somewhere that fake redacted stuff for flavoring/humor
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CheeseNoodle @lemmy.world - 10hr
The first set (with nothing but blacked out pages) was properly redacted and in-fact contained no text data whatsoever. I think this is from the more recent files including the ones that were accidentally uploaded and pulled an hour later.
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AmbitiousProcess (they/them) - 22hr
I thought this was just gonna be made up, but it's true!!!
Go to this document and look for the text "Defendants Kahn and Indyke controlled and directed the activities of the other entities and personal bank accounts of Epstein" so you can get to the part with redactions.
Copy the redactions with Ctrl + C. Paste the redactions into either Notepad or another text editor that doesn't support advanced formatting like highlights.
I wonder if this was intentional? Maybe the FBI agent assigned to this file knew the whole censor thing was a huge fiasco and simply did this.
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dejected_warp_core @lemmy.world - 21hr
Deep down, I sincerely hope that it's malicious compliance in favor of getting the truth out.
That said, I absolutely will cop to dangerous blood-levels of copium here. Living in a kakistocracy so completely top-to-bottom incompetent as to do this by accident, is a level of peril that I'm not equipped to handle right now.
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ForeverComical - 7hr
I always operate by the "never assume malice where incompetence is sufficient" rule
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melsaskca @lemmy.ca - 6hr
Feigned ignorance for the resistance/people. Neither malice nor incompetence.
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axx @slrpnk.net - 7hr
It's pretty clear to me this was intentional.
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πΈπππ - 21hr
I really hope this is malicious compliance and not incompetence...
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furry toaster - 17hr
could be elaborated planted evidence
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doesit - 24hr
teacher here. I blacked out words in a text for some test. kid held it up to the light. could read every word. was a pdf made in word.
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u/lukmly013 πΎ (lemmy.sdf.org) - 21hr
Lots of people on social media hide sensitive information with 90% opacity highlighter.
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dangling_cat - 23hr
Also, I wonder if you can use brute force for a lot of name reductions. You know, have a list of highly suspicious names, set the same font and size of the surrounding text, and try to see if it fits in the black box.
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Destide - 23hr
Yes yes you can let's spin up the old ml machine and a copy of python3 just like our grandfather's did
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ApertureUA @lemmy.today - 21hr
grandfather is python2
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zalgotext @sh.itjust.works - 16hr
Grandfather is ABC, dad is python2
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Deacon - 21hr
Uphill both ways
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Delusions @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 1day
There's several pages that are just completely black that it's like they drew a big black square with paint or they just copy pasted the same page probably
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LiveLM - 21hr
Shame this fuck-up only happened in some of the pages.
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buddascrayon @lemmy.world - 7hr
This is going to look obvious in hindsight but perhaps people should have kept this to themselves until every single Epstein file had been released. Because now the DOJ is just going to do their best to fix the problem.
Not that that saying much these guys are the fucking keystone cops.
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qaz - 5hr
I think there were probably several people that found this before that didn't say anything for this reason.
I posted it on here because once it's trending on TikTok and Bsky that ship has sailed
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buddascrayon @lemmy.world - 4hr
Yeah, I wasn't specifically referring to you. I just meant that people in general who've discovered this exploit maybe should have collectively kept it to themselves.
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SoleInvictus - 3hr
If only. This is why I always laugh at the conspiracy theories that involve more than like 10 people, like all the scientists fabricating global warming. Humans are terrible at keeping secrets.
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ArmchairAce1944 @discuss.online - 7hr
And if you watch the original keystone cops they will look damn competent compared to these guys.
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melsaskca @lemmy.ca - 6hr
Max Senate. /s
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Nico198X - 4hr
we're all so blessed that autocracy is so stupid
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IphtashuFitz @lemmy.world - 3hr
How the hell can they not have learned from the countless times this has happened before?
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matlag - 3hr
They work only with the best. Musk fired the other ones.
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Feathercrown @lemmy.world - 21hr
THEY DID IT AGAIN
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Bosht @lemmy.world - 2hr
Guys. This is called resistance. These people are govt employees. We go through literally yearly training on maintaining classified documents. This wasn't gross incompetence, it was fucking intentional. They knew they could do it because they knew leadership was too fucking stupid to check it properly. Believe it or not the govt is largely run by people, just like you and I. We are doing what we can where we can.
More than likely, you just had Eric doing these certain files. See Eric was pulled in from field work to help redact. Probably used word 2 or 3 times in his life and hates email.
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uncouple9831 @lemmy.zip - 7hr
And hopefully Eric doesn't like pedophile presidents.
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ilinamorato @lemmy.world - 4hr
Malicious compliance on the part of some DOJ intern maybe?
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FatVegan @leminal.space - 3hr
That would imply that they are good people
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ilinamorato @lemmy.world - 3hr
I dunno, I feel like an intern might not be as dogmatic as a political appointee.
"REDACT THESE DOCUMENTS TO PROTECT DEAR LEADER!!"
"Man, I just need college credit so that I can get a job in this terrible economy..."
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MonkderVierte @lemmy.zip - 7hr
I mean, are there tech literate MAGAts who would read the Epstein files to test their convictions?
We needed to be quiet about this until they released all the tranches so that they're all readable but nooo someone had to go and tweet about it.
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Cruel @programming.dev - 3hr
Happens all the time in the legal field. I once got a document in discovery that inverted the proper redactions. It was a roster of identifying information, all unredacted except for the actual relevant person in the case β that was redacted. π€£
Redacting with black boxes over text is more common of a mistake than that.
qaz in microblogmemes @lemmy.world
Black highlighter β Erasing
Not all of them are like this. At least one isn't.
Still
Yeah...
I should have gotten all the files when they first came out. Is there an archive somewhere? All I've looked at is the one file that was changed to black out trump sucking the nipples of an underage person. That one had the text data replaced with a "-" for each block.
Whaaaaaaa? I've never heard of this.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/06454622-ddb9-4e80-91c8-4751c37c96f5.jpeg
Thanks, but I'm sorry I asked:
https://i.giphy.com/RHP6KnZMvsbthmXSYn.webp
What page is this? Or how can I verify it's real?
I tried googling for it the other day but couldn't find anything
Edit: did a bit of research. This was originally released unredacted in 2024 I think. https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court Records/Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 115-cv-07433 (S.D.N.Y. 2015)/1332-16.pdf
Can't find the partially redacted version but the Epstein files are hard to search
That reminds me of my marathon days.
What
Shirt bounces up and down while running, makes nipples ouchie π
Raw nipples.
There's JMail which shows you his emails as of you're logged into his account. It also has other pages with files, photos, and even his Amazon purchase history.
https://epstein-files-browser.vercel.app/
I choose to believe that the people who did this aren't idiots, but heroes.
Yeah, that much is obvious.
This has happened before. Back when I used to browse the armpit of the internet there were classified military docs that had the same technique used.
I called it. Last week I said this :
reddit is the armpit. 4chan is the unwashed taint.
So that makes Lemmy what? The smeggy bellend?
Only when you show up
Huh, guess we don't do self deprecation
I don't think you're all of Lemmy.
Actually that guy is all of Lemmy, the rest of us are a hive mind. Blorp blurrp
Blorp blurrp
I mean....the left nut, no?
I'll see myself out.
Actually in Europe it would be considered the center nut.
I find it funny that it took a few days for this to come out. That's the very first thing I try if I see a big black box censoring something in a PDF or webpage is highlight to see if there's text under there (practice from reading SCP Wiki and various forums with fun formatting options). Heck I randomly highlight as I read enough I'd probably even find that it was incorrectly redacted without even trying
You can do that for SCPs!? I have been reading that forever and now I feel dumb
Some SCPs also have text with the same color as the background, if there is an oddly large space between text.
I honestly could be misremembering. I swear I remember seeing somewhere that fake redacted stuff for flavoring/humor
The first set (with nothing but blacked out pages) was properly redacted and in-fact contained no text data whatsoever. I think this is from the more recent files including the ones that were accidentally uploaded and pulled an hour later.
I thought this was just gonna be made up, but it's true!!!
Go to this document and look for the text "Defendants Kahn and Indyke controlled and directed the activities of the other entities and personal bank accounts of Epstein" so you can get to the part with redactions.
Copy the redactions with Ctrl + C. Paste the redactions into either Notepad or another text editor that doesn't support advanced formatting like highlights.
Before:
https://media.piefed.social/posts/Ne/Zh/NeZhr0f9xwFmN85.png
After: (in notepad)
https://media.piefed.social/posts/vk/fx/vkfxkrH9V1vJDbF.png
I wonder if this was intentional? Maybe the FBI agent assigned to this file knew the whole censor thing was a huge fiasco and simply did this.
Deep down, I sincerely hope that it's malicious compliance in favor of getting the truth out.
That said, I absolutely will cop to dangerous blood-levels of copium here. Living in a kakistocracy so completely top-to-bottom incompetent as to do this by accident, is a level of peril that I'm not equipped to handle right now.
I always operate by the "never assume malice where incompetence is sufficient" rule
Feigned ignorance for the resistance/people. Neither malice nor incompetence.
It's pretty clear to me this was intentional.
I really hope this is malicious compliance and not incompetence...
could be elaborated planted evidence
teacher here. I blacked out words in a text for some test. kid held it up to the light. could read every word. was a pdf made in word.
Lots of people on social media hide sensitive information with 90% opacity highlighter.
Also, I wonder if you can use brute force for a lot of name reductions. You know, have a list of highly suspicious names, set the same font and size of the surrounding text, and try to see if it fits in the black box.
Yes yes you can let's spin up the old ml machine and a copy of python3 just like our grandfather's did
grandfather is python2
Grandfather is ABC, dad is python2
Uphill both ways
There's several pages that are just completely black that it's like they drew a big black square with paint or they just copy pasted the same page probably
Shame this fuck-up only happened in some of the pages.
This is going to look obvious in hindsight but perhaps people should have kept this to themselves until every single Epstein file had been released. Because now the DOJ is just going to do their best to fix the problem.
Not that that saying much these guys are the fucking keystone cops.
I think there were probably several people that found this before that didn't say anything for this reason.
I posted it on here because once it's trending on TikTok and Bsky that ship has sailed
Yeah, I wasn't specifically referring to you. I just meant that people in general who've discovered this exploit maybe should have collectively kept it to themselves.
If only. This is why I always laugh at the conspiracy theories that involve more than like 10 people, like all the scientists fabricating global warming. Humans are terrible at keeping secrets.
And if you watch the original keystone cops they will look damn competent compared to these guys.
Max Senate. /s
we're all so blessed that autocracy is so stupid
How the hell can they not have learned from the countless times this has happened before?
They work only with the best. Musk fired the other ones.
THEY DID IT AGAIN
Guys. This is called resistance. These people are govt employees. We go through literally yearly training on maintaining classified documents. This wasn't gross incompetence, it was fucking intentional. They knew they could do it because they knew leadership was too fucking stupid to check it properly. Believe it or not the govt is largely run by people, just like you and I. We are doing what we can where we can.
You can compare some of the redactions here
More than likely, you just had Eric doing these certain files. See Eric was pulled in from field work to help redact. Probably used word 2 or 3 times in his life and hates email.
And hopefully Eric doesn't like pedophile presidents.
Malicious compliance on the part of some DOJ intern maybe?
That would imply that they are good people
I dunno, I feel like an intern might not be as dogmatic as a political appointee.
"REDACT THESE DOCUMENTS TO PROTECT DEAR LEADER!!"
"Man, I just need college credit so that I can get a job in this terrible economy..."
I mean, are there tech literate MAGAts who would read the Epstein files to test their convictions?
The referenced video.
There's a tool called
pdftotext...We needed to be quiet about this until they released all the tranches so that they're all readable but nooo someone had to go and tweet about it.
Happens all the time in the legal field. I once got a document in discovery that inverted the proper redactions. It was a roster of identifying information, all unredacted except for the actual relevant person in the case β that was redacted. π€£
Redacting with black boxes over text is more common of a mistake than that.