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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.
we're all so blessed that autocracy is so stupid
How the hell can they not have learned from the countless times this has happened before?
They work only with the best. Musk fired the other ones.
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.
Malicious compliance on the part of some DOJ intern maybe?
That would imply that they are good people
I dunno, I feel like an intern might not be as dogmatic as a political appointee.
"REDACT THESE DOCUMENTS TO PROTECT DEAR LEADER!!"
"Man, I just need college credit so that I can get a job in this terrible economy..."
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.
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.
And if you watch the original keystone cops they will look damn competent compared to these guys.
Max Senate. /s
I mean, are there tech literate MAGAts who would read the Epstein files to test their convictions?
There's a tool called pdftotext...
I choose to believe that the people who did this aren't idiots, but heroes.
Yeah, that much is obvious.
I really hope this is malicious compliance and not incompetence...
could be elaborated planted evidence
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.
I always operate by the "never assume malice where incompetence is sufficient" rule
Feigned ignorance for the resistance/people. Neither malice nor incompetence.
It's pretty clear to me this was intentional.
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?
I would put it in a 300 line document nobody will read but would cover my ass.
Shame this fuck-up only happened in some of the pages.
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.
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
The first set (with nothing but blacked out pages) was properly redacted and in-fact contained no text data whatsoever. I think this is from the more recent files including the ones that were accidentally uploaded and pulled an hour later.
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
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.
And hopefully Eric doesn't like pedophile presidents.
There is nothing trumps admin can't fuck up. Its actually impressive.
THEY DID IT AGAIN