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.
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 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
Yeah, but not marked as spoilers - but it was integrated into the story. sadly i can't remember which SCP it was, i am pretty sure it was in Series 4 (so somewhere between 3000 and 4000). I am reading SCPs on and off again, and am currently around scp 4800, so it's been a few months that i saw it.
E: I just remembered one SCP which emulated an terminal, where you were able to remove the redactions by editing the proposed file name to open from a level 4 file to a level 5, that one was pretty cool!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I have insider knowledge that that's exactly how this image was made. [OC] please share it because I think the format is funny and would love to see it catch on
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.
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 — that was redacted. 🤣
Redacting with black boxes over text is more common of a mistake than that.
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LodeMike@lemmy.today · 142 pts · 230d
Not all of them are like this. At least one isn't.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 57 pts · 230d
Still
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 64 pts · 230d
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.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 230d
Whaaaaaaa? I've never heard of this.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 110 pts · 230d
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 57 pts · 230d
Thanks, but I'm sorry I asked:
gothic_lemons@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 230d
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%20Records/Giuffre%20v.%20Maxwell,%20No.%20115-cv-07433%20(S.D.N.Y.%202015)/1332-16.pdf
Can't find the partially redacted version but the Epstein files are hard to search
SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world · 7 pts · 230d
That reminds me of my marathon days.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 230d
What
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 230d
Shirt bounces up and down while running, makes nipples ouchie 👍
SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world · 3 pts · 230d
Raw nipples.
qaz@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 230d
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.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 230d
https://epstein-files-browser.vercel.app/
Jerkface@piefed.social · 124 pts · 230d
I choose to believe that the people who did this aren't idiots, but heroes.
axx@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 229d
Yeah, that much is obvious.
DScratch@sh.itjust.works · 110 pts · 230d
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.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 73 pts · 230d
I called it. Last week I said this :
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 230d
reddit is the armpit. 4chan is the unwashed taint.
Nfamwap@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 230d
So that makes Lemmy what? The smeggy bellend?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 230d
Only when you show up
Nfamwap@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 230d
Huh, guess we don't do self deprecation
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 230d
I don't think you're all of Lemmy.
obinice@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 230d
Actually that guy is all of Lemmy, the rest of us are a hive mind. Blorp blurrp
coffee_tacos@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 230d
Blorp blurrp
cv_octavio@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 229d
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 229d
Actually in Europe it would be considered the center nut.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 26 pts · 230d
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
AlternateHuman02@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 230d
You can do that for SCPs!? I have been reading that forever and now I feel dumb
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 9 pts · 230d
Only some - default is just black boxes. I remember at least one where the redactions were removed on click per word.
ApertureUA@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 230d
You mean: a spoiler tag?
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 230d
Yeah, but not marked as spoilers - but it was integrated into the story. sadly i can't remember which SCP it was, i am pretty sure it was in Series 4 (so somewhere between 3000 and 4000). I am reading SCPs on and off again, and am currently around scp 4800, so it's been a few months that i saw it.
E: I just remembered one SCP which emulated an terminal, where you were able to remove the redactions by editing the proposed file name to open from a level 4 file to a level 5, that one was pretty cool!
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 230d
Some SCPs also have text with the same color as the background, if there is an oddly large space between text.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 230d
I honestly could be misremembering. I swear I remember seeing somewhere that fake redacted stuff for flavoring/humor
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 229d
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.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social · 99 pts · 230d
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:
After: (in notepad)
Danitos@reddthat.com · 88 pts · 230d
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.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 230d
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.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 230d
Trump didn't personally hire or vet every human in this government. This is malicious compliance. I'd do it. Wouldn't you?
Diurnambule@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 229d
I would put it in a 300 line document nobody will read but would cover my ass.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 229d
I always operate by the "never assume malice where incompetence is sufficient" rule
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 229d
Feigned ignorance for the resistance/people. Neither malice nor incompetence.
axx@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 229d
It's pretty clear to me this was intentional.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 86 pts · 230d
I really hope this is malicious compliance and not incompetence...
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 230d
could be elaborated planted evidence
doesit@sh.itjust.works · 68 pts · 230d
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.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 36 pts · 230d
Lots of people on social media hide sensitive information with 90% opacity highlighter.
dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone · 50 pts · 230d
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.
sirico@feddit.uk · 33 pts · 230d
Yes yes you can let's spin up the old ml machine and a copy of python3 just like our grandfather's did
ApertureUA@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 230d
grandfather is python2
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 230d
Grandfather is ABC, dad is python2
ApertureUA@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 228d
Grandfather is 5-bit opcodes on switches
deacon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 230d
Uphill both ways
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 229d
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.
qaz@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 229d
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
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 229d
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.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 229d
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.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 6 pts · 229d
And if you watch the original keystone cops they will look damn competent compared to these guys.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 229d
Max Senate. /s
Bosht@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 229d
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.
Delusions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 43 pts · 230d
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
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 230d
I have insider knowledge that that's exactly how this image was made. [OC] please share it because I think the format is funny and would love to see it catch on
LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 38 pts · 230d
Shame this fuck-up only happened in some of the pages.
_Nico198X_@europe.pub · 26 pts · 229d
we're all so blessed that autocracy is so stupid
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 229d
How the hell can they not have learned from the countless times this has happened before?
matlag@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 229d
They work only with the best. Musk fired the other ones.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 24 pts · 230d
There is nothing trumps admin can't fuck up. Its actually impressive.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 230d
THEY DID IT AGAIN
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 230d
You can compare some of the redactions here
Lucky_777@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 230d
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.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 229d
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 229d
Malicious compliance on the part of some DOJ intern maybe?
FatVegan@leminal.space · -2 pts · 229d
That would imply that they are good people
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 229d
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..."
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 229d
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.
Cruel@programming.dev · 9 pts · 229d
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 — that was redacted. 🤣
Redacting with black boxes over text is more common of a mistake than that.
greygore@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 230d
The referenced video.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 229d
I mean, are there tech literate MAGAts who would read the Epstein files to test their convictions?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 229d
There's a tool called
pdftotext...BilSabab@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 226d
It counts if it is black i guess
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 230d
Nerd Reich
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 230d
That's disparaging to actual nerds.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 230d
Seriously. This is obviously the "Turd Reich".
SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world · 4 pts · 230d
That’s kind of mean to turds.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 230d
Found the coprolite.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 229d