Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday evening
People examining documents released by the Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case discovered that some of the file redaction can be undone with Photoshop techniques, or by simply highlighting text to paste into a word processing file.
Un-redacted text from these documents began circulating through social media on Monday evening. An exhibit in a civil case in the Virgin Islands against Darren K Indyke and Richard D Kahn, two executors of Epstein’s estate, contains redacted allegations explaining how Epstein and his associates had facilitated the sexual abuse of children. The exhibit was part of the second amended complaint in the state case against Indyke and Kahn.
Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C is a hack now. Neat.
So long as you say “I’m in” after you hit Ctrl+V, it counts.
Ever show someone under 30 a keyboard shortcut? They act like you’ve performed magic.
Maybe for like, Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Shift+T but not for copy and paste man c’mon.
I swear it. I’ve taught five people in their 20s how to copy paste with the keyboard in the past few years.
They right click every time, I’ve seen it.
When the average level is so low, it is.
I mean it’s all just keyboard button clicks. How many clicks minimum until it counts as hacking?
As few as you please on hackertyper
Probably for the inevitable DoJ cases against people disseminating those files.
I mean, “workaround” isn’t as headline worthy hahaha.
How is copying text from a PDF a hack?
I see 2 potential paths to this, possibly both:
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Unknowledgeable individuals were tasked with redactions, and didn’t understand adding black bars over documents is closer to a sticky note than a marker.
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Knowledgeable individuals taught others to ‘redact’ in this manner to sabotage the effort, and those who signed off on the release didn’t look any further than the rendered result, if they even did that.
It’s like people saying their facebook got hacked when in reality, they logged in on a public computer and didn’t log out. Or their password is their kid’s name or some shit.
Probably even simpler than that - the author thought “people hacking redacted government documents sounds like a juicy headline!”.
I’ve seen people claim their account was hacked when somebody created a duplicate.
Adding to theory 2, I bet there was very little record keeping regarding which agent was redacting which document. The point of a coverup is that you try to reduce accountability. Even if only Trump loyalist FBI agents were selected for the censorship job, I doubt they all could remain loyalists after reading the Epstein files.
How is copying text from a PDF a hack?
It isn’t, but MAGA is so collectively stupid that they think it is. They probably think turning on a computer is hacking.
it’s a document with concealed information and that information is unconcealed through a method not originally intended for revealing information. that’s a hack. you copy things you can see, but here you copy to see if there are things unseen. that’s not the original purpose of ctrl+c ctrl+v
Kind of like a life hack?
No, that’d be obvious, simple and wrong.
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That is fucking hilarious, this government doesn’t even know how to use a black highlighter correctly.
It’s DIGITAL!
Stuffs hard…
- the DOJ
People have been making these same mistakes for literally decades… How does the government not have a 1-click dedicated tool for this yet?
You think this was a mistake? Certainly some staffers did this on purpose, my friend. Good for them.
There are no heros working on this, any breaks we get are for to incompetence.
I genuinely can’t believe that there’s still anybody left who’s principled enough and isn’t afraid of losing their job (or much, much worse) in retribution.
Because Elon probably dodged the people who knew their job
They do have such tools. The CIA uses it all the time for their declassifications. This was done on purpose.
literally saw this shit in a “complete beginner” CTF challenge years ago
One thing you can always count on with MAGAs is their virtuosic incompetence.
So what did the redacted sections say… … … anyone 🩻
One of the documents talked about how Trump and Epstein were involved in the rape of a 14 year old and the murder of her baby so… yes.
Didn’t see that in the article, is there a link you can share?
Different post on Lemmy referenced this document. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 8/EFTA00025010.pdf
jesus fucking christ
OMFG…. This shit is beyond sickening. What is the chance this was faked?
Well, the document is real, so the question would shift to of it could be a false allegation. I suppose for each document we can’t know, so all we can do is keep in mind that any one document could possibly be a false allegation. If someone can connect this to other documents, that could help. Particularly connecting it to the claimed direct agent contact or followups.
On the one hand, it seems believable, Trump is a trash human known specifically for creepy regard for sexiness of underage girls. So undeniable that the reality of the Epstein release induced some die hard maga to pivot to a “technically not a pedophile if they started their period” bullshit. Openly ogling his own teenage daughter, peeping on underage beauty pageants, and after a casual interaction with a young girl the very first words out of his mouth were about when he could start dating her…
On the other I suppose we have to acknowledge that this was a tip submitted to the FBI website at the height of his re election campaign right when the death of Epstein and his Trump connection were national news, and all the stuff about trump was already common knowledge. Out of the hundreds of millions of invested parties, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out some submitted bogus tips to a website, either not caring about risks or not taking the risks of false information over a web form seriously.
These are witness statements with evidence?
They used Russian propaganda techniques to deal with this, polarization, gas lighting, every trick in the book. Now the lines are so blurred, nobody knows what to believe, which is the true stated goal and accomplishment.
If you’re American- realize that you live in the most heavily propagandized nation on the planet earth. Yes, worse than Russia, China and North Korea.
It’s just the end results, achievements, goals are not aligned with what we might traditionally perceive as the end goals of propaganda. This includes corporate and government sponsored forms.
K. And what does this have to do with Trump being a pedo?
He’s managed so far to have a pretty damning pile of evidence against him, to openly use the presidential office for personal financial gain (like billions, openly) to no avail. Even going as far as openly discussing no elections in 28’. It is playbook Russian propaganda tactics.
Which agency will physically remove the guy from the White House in 28’? If he captures that agency it’s game over for democracy in the USA?
Bad, sure. The worst on earth? Bring the proof or expect us to disbelieve you.
Corporate propaganda pushes 10,000 ads on the typical american per day.
This leads to the most psychologically optimized persuasion (see propaganda) on the Earth- except it’s not just commerical but includes privately funded algorithmic political, but overt and subtle.
Much of American culture is advertising, branding and political posturing.
trump raped the pregnant teen til she gave birth.
Though that one had the most critical information unredacted. Certainly worth highlighting that particular document regardless, but technically not an answer to the question about redactions.
One was regarding Alan Dershowitz. Apparently he had sex with a minor then, while defending Epstein on a case, he negotiated immunity for himself.
https://bsky.app/profile/truthfuljai.bsky.social/post/3man6fffimc2e
Click the link? That’s literally what the article is about…?
There’s links?! WHERE
Read the article.
Keep it up us govt. it seems you are the best disseminating information against yourself.
Edit is to us
L33t h4x0r5 and their highlight removal scripts
You can literally just copy and paste the entire in redacted docs.
LOL did they use black highlighter? Its so dumb you can’t make this shit up.
grok u fuked up bro
Carry on hackers!
So i downloaded a few of the files from the gov site and they’re just pictures no text. Where would i get the other ones.
Voidzilla’s most recent video has links in the description https://youtu.be/R7i9KdVTFR4
I don’t see why it really matters. Unless it’s made official, they’ll just say it’s a lie and disregard it.
They can’t if the DOJ is hosting the file containing incriminating meta data.
They already did.
