Not all of them are like this. At least one isn't.
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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.
one file that was changed to black out trump sucking the nipples of an underage person.
Thanks, but I'm sorry I asked:
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
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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 choose to believe that the people who did this aren't idiots, but heroes.
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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 :
I'm hoping for the old “it looks black until you select the text in the PDF” snafu.
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
Only some - default is just black boxes. I remember at least one where the redactions were removed on click per word.
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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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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)
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.
kakistocracy
Trump didn't personally hire or vet every human in this government. This is malicious compliance. I'd do it. Wouldn't you?
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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
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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
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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
they drew a big black square with paint
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
Shame this fuck-up only happened in some of the pages.
There is nothing trumps admin can't fuck up. Its actually impressive.
THEY DID IT AGAIN
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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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 — that was redacted. 🤣
Redacting with black boxes over text is more common of a mistake than that.
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