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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 :
I’m hoping for the old “it looks black until you select the text in the PDF” snafu.
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 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)
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.
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.
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
There is nothing trumps admin can’t fuck up. Its actually impressive.
THEY DID IT AGAIN
Nerd Reich
That’s disparaging to actual nerds.
Seriously. This is obviously the “Turd Reich”.
That’s kind of mean to turds.
Found the coprolite.
Malicious compliance on the part of some DOJ intern maybe?
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.
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.
The referenced video.
