Ah yes, the famously super-competent FBI directed by political loyalists who's only qualifications are heavy plastic surgery and blind faith in an evil idiot.
If anyone like me was looking for proof this is actually possible in the files:
Broe's video showed him copying several paragraphs from one document in the DOJ's Epstein library/2022.03.17-1%20Exhibit%201.pdf) from the "Court Records" section. While the paragraph Broe selected includes several redactions, all of the redactions were removed after Broe pasted the paragraph in question into a Word document. AlterNet was able to confirm that that specific document's redactions could be read in Word, as well as in Mac's Pages application and in Google Docs.
True that. We can hope there's an insider doing the right thing. But, we are dealing with the Trump admin that sent a lot of institutional knowledge packing. Instant karma gonna getcha.
It might be a choreographed “gotcha” too. Like they intentionally made the documents like that so people would think they found out The Big Secret and stop pushing for other files that could still be completely hidden. Idk though, it also seems really generous to think this administration could do anything that smart.
A single junior analyst causing such a breach of redacted information would still point towards incompetence on an organisational level. This should really be something every person who works in publishing documents with redacted informations should be trained to spot.
Working IT, it's impressive how many people don't understand basic computer functions. Even young people who grew up with technology. I impressed someone by fixing something by quitting and relaunching an app the other day. C'mon…
For those who don't know, the title of the post refers to an error code, ID-Ten-Tee, meaning IDIOT.
Another would be PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.
There is now a middle sweet spot of computer literacy that spans Gen X and Millennials. When you go younger than that, you start running into people who never owned a normal computer growing up and only ever used smartphones/tablets.
By making devices simple enough for grandma to use, we inadvertently fostered a new generation of people who are as computer literate as grandma.
I mean DOGE hired dozens of high school and college students running amok with AI in critical systems. It was a pretty coordinated attempt at culling professionals.
This is the crazy thing. This is some kind of invocation of Poe's Law around Hanlon's Razor. I want to believe this is someone on the inside resisting, but we've already seen so many examples of this administration's gross incompetence that I don't feel certain of that. It's this real incompetence? Or resistance as a parody of that incompetence?
c'mon man don't be a chud. If everyone expects nothing to happen nothing will. If everyone calls for something to happen there's a higher chance it will
59 Comments
OpenPassageways@programming.dev · 135 pts · 231d
It could have been incompetence, yes... Or it could have been someone who knew this would slip by the Trump loyalists and end up getting published.
leftist_lawyer@lemmy.today · 61 pts · 231d
True enough. I waffle between good intention and incompetence.
db2@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 230d
Both things could be true at once.
But it's far more likely they're all just that stupid.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 230d
Well even if it were intentional, that individual was dependent on the incompetence and they were right.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 230d
Ah yes, the famously super-competent FBI directed by political loyalists who's only qualifications are heavy plastic surgery and blind faith in an evil idiot.
village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 230d
The leadership might have changed, but the employees haven't.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 229d
Yeah, exactly. The leadership tells the employees what to do, and they do it poorly.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 230d
I would do that if given the opportunity.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 231d
Oh I get it because they're stupid
vale@sh.itjust.works · 46 pts · 230d
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 230d
i like this one because it was LITERALLY the adobe highlighter tool set to black
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 230d
That was my exact response when I saw this yesterday
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 229d
Man that was embarrassing
Ch3rry314@piefed.social · 35 pts · 231d
If anyone like me was looking for proof this is actually possible in the files:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6yrpknzx7zqsvzfxrljm3q3b/post/3maoa7cssos2f
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 230d
bad apple FBI redactions
davepleasebehave@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 230d
There is a non negligible chance that some of this was done on purpose.
leftist_lawyer@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 230d
True that. We can hope there's an insider doing the right thing. But, we are dealing with the Trump admin that sent a lot of institutional knowledge packing. Instant karma gonna getcha.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 230d
I was wondering that too.
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 230d
Maybe they are not stupid. Maybe some junior analyst don't agree with this so they left like that on purpose
NeonNight@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 230d
It might be a choreographed “gotcha” too. Like they intentionally made the documents like that so people would think they found out The Big Secret and stop pushing for other files that could still be completely hidden. Idk though, it also seems really generous to think this administration could do anything that smart.
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 230d
What additional information could be worst than what everyone already know. The peoblem in america today is not lack of proof or knowledge
m0darn@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 229d
I was wondering that too, fake redaction on false allegations and unverifiable allegations, real redaction on allegations that can be corroborated.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 230d
This is a really important part of the CIA guide to sabotaging Fascism. https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
Don't encourage good people to quit.
Diurnambule@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 230d
It is not resolving for me
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 230d
Here you go my good sir, and keep up the fight.
https://www.404media.co/heres-a-pdf-version-of-the-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism/
Diurnambule@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 229d
Thansk
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 229d
GOOD! (Jk, fuck facists)
PenguinJazz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 230d
Maybe a mix of both. Spite and stupidity is a deadly combo
yobasari@feddit.org · 3 pts · 230d
A single junior analyst causing such a breach of redacted information would still point towards incompetence on an organisational level. This should really be something every person who works in publishing documents with redacted informations should be trained to spot.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 230d
Maybe they print it to check it 🤔
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 230d
oh you would be so so surprised by the things I saw as a cybersecurity auditor
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 26 pts · 230d
Working IT, it's impressive how many people don't understand basic computer functions. Even young people who grew up with technology. I impressed someone by fixing something by quitting and relaunching an app the other day. C'mon…
For those who don't know, the title of the post refers to an error code, ID-Ten-Tee, meaning IDIOT.
Another would be PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.
zikzak025@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 230d
There is now a middle sweet spot of computer literacy that spans Gen X and Millennials. When you go younger than that, you start running into people who never owned a normal computer growing up and only ever used smartphones/tablets.
By making devices simple enough for grandma to use, we inadvertently fostered a new generation of people who are as computer literate as grandma.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 230d
I got out of tech because I assumed Gen Z would be way better at it than I was.
I got back in when I realized, I was one of the generation that actually knows this shit, without having a CS degree even.
HarmlessCake@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 230d
You got a Counter Strike degree which taught you all the basics
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 230d
I mean DOGE hired dozens of high school and college students running amok with AI in critical systems. It was a pretty coordinated attempt at culling professionals.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 230d
Layer 8 issue.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 230d
I get this reference.
bklyn@piefed.social · 21 pts · 230d
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 230d
This is the crazy thing. This is some kind of invocation of Poe's Law around Hanlon's Razor. I want to believe this is someone on the inside resisting, but we've already seen so many examples of this administration's gross incompetence that I don't feel certain of that. It's this real incompetence? Or resistance as a parody of that incompetence?
leftist_lawyer@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 231d
My humble yuletide shitpost. It's the giving season, don't you know?
Korne127@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 231d
It's great :>
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 230d
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 230d
alt text: repost to spread 1 KB of Christmas Joy
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 230d
this is how I feel when I was on the FBI page and saw the now deleted trump photo before they deleted it. Surreal experience.
that was my "what radicalized me" moment
leftist_lawyer@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 230d
Or, normalized. The trump regime are the "radicals."
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 230d
true
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 230d
If you are talking about the photo of the photos in EFTA00000468.pdf, that’s back online.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 230d
Is there a collection/description of all the data gathered this way?
funkyfarmington@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 230d
Oooh, those hackers who crtl-c ctrl-v are so damn smart!
cley_faye@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 230d
Back in my days, it was only ID10T. The s is new >_<
plyth@feddit.org · 5 pts · 230d
Weren't there 1000 FBI agents working on those files? Shouldn't at least one of them know?
NachBarcelona@piefed.social · 5 pts · 230d
Nothing will happen.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 230d
c'mon man don't be a chud. If everyone expects nothing to happen nothing will. If everyone calls for something to happen there's a higher chance it will
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 230d
if they find out nothing will be released. just pretend you're upset and it will continue happening. give them enough rope to hang themselves.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 230d
IIT: People who think they're oh so smart.
Also ITT: Those same people thinking Trump personally hired the people redacting the files.
vga@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 229d
It's possible that the right people in the administrator wanted to "redact" them like this.
SiegeRhino@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 230d
🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽
🧅🧅🧅🧅🧅
u_u@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 229d
Is there any archived version of these files somewhere?