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How is copying text from a PDF a hack?
I see 2 potential paths to this, possibly both:
Unknowledgeable individuals were tasked with redactions, and didn’t understand adding black bars over documents is closer to a sticky note than a marker.
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 isn't, but MAGA is so collectively stupid that they think it is. They probably think turning on a computer is hacking.
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!".
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.
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.