This is really great, dont tell this to anyone!
They are still releasing more parts of the Epstein files!
Take the advice of Napoleon: Never interrupt the enemy while they are making a mistake!
Amazing what a bit of knowledge, intelligence and competency can achieve.
Inversely, it’s also amazing what a lack thereof cannot achieve, for instance, redacting publicized documents.
…it’s safe to say that Pam Bondi’s DoJ did not put its best and brightest on this (admittedly gargantuan) undertaking
Actually they did. It’s just that their best and brightest are fairly dim.
Their best and brightest were fired or retired.
Well it’s all the leftovers at this point. When the priority is loyalty, performance suffers.
Literally stop publicizing this stuff until they’ve shown their entire hands
Interesting in few weeks we might end up with some additional unredacted documents
Fun fact: this guy uses fish shell.
Source? I’ve seen the bash reference manual in the files
The article author. And they state it explicitly in the footnotes.
Oh I thought you meant Epstein uses fish.
forgetting to redact credentials that made it possible for all of Reddit to log into Epstein’s account and trample over all the evidence
/o\ 🤦
Part of me wants to think this fuck up was on purpose.
I need an ELI5 version of this. (Note: this comment is a critique of me, not the author or the content of the article.)
Edit: if “nerdsnipe” isn’t in the dictionary, it totally should be.
Some of the Epstein emails were released as scanned PDFs of raw email format (See MIME)
MIME formatted emails are ASCII based. To include an attachments, which can be binary, the MIME format specifies it must be encoded using base64. Base64 can always take binary input and return an ASCII output. This is trivial to reverse if you have the ASCII output.
However, the font choice is inconvenient because l and 1 look the same.
I’m a bit confused by the article is only discussing extracting PDFs while in actuality you can reverse any attachment including images.
I am also no expert, so a smarter person will now correct me on anything I got wrong.
Its correct
Why the pdfs contain “wrong letters” though, i havent a clue
I think this is the origin: https://xkcd.com/356/
Has anyone checked if it’s just black text on a black background. That would be in line with the competence level of Donnie’s administration.
I took a brief look at one and it seems they may have learnt their lesson from the first time around, unfortunately.
Some of the reactions are some in an effective way, and I assume this example is one of them. The problem being evidently they didn’t think any what might be in big base64 blobs in the PDF, and I guess some of these folks somehow had their email encoded as PDF, which seems bonkers…
