Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C is a hack now. Neat.
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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Ever show someone under 30 a keyboard shortcut? They act like you've performed magic.
Maybe for like, Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Shift+T but not for copy and paste man c'mon.
One thing you can always count on with MAGAs is their virtuosic incompetence.
So i downloaded a few of the files from the gov site and they're just pictures no text. Where would i get the other ones.
People have been making these same mistakes for literally decades... How does the government not have a 1-click dedicated tool for this yet?
Because Elon probably dodged the people who knew their job
You think this was a mistake? Certainly some staffers did this on purpose, my friend. Good for them.
There are no heros working on this, any breaks we get are for to incompetence.
I genuinely can't believe that there's still anybody left who's principled enough and isn't afraid of losing their job (or much, much worse) in retribution.
They do have such tools. The CIA uses it all the time for their declassifications. This was done on purpose.
literally saw this shit in a "complete beginner" CTF challenge years ago
Don't underestimate how important this particular screw up is: It means that there's now publicly available proof that they redacted information in a manner that violates the law, and that it can enter the conversation while the Epstein files still have the public attention, rather than months or years later.
Can't wait for the Supreme Court to decide in 10 years that releasing a document with ineffective redactions means the document was not technically redacted, so no laws were violated.
.... while simultaneously ruling that the information that was supposed to have been redacted can not be used because they say so.
We’re founding a committee to oversee discussions about how to consider moving forward with this. Action will be taken at a faster rate than usual compared to usual congressional processes. This legislative action is expected to take place in 2047 once deliberations are complete.
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That is fucking hilarious, this government doesn't even know how to use a black highlighter correctly.
It's DIGITAL!
Stuffs hard...
- the DOJ
How is copying text from a PDF a hack?
I see 2 potential paths to this, possibly both:
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Unknowledgeable individuals were tasked with redactions, and didn’t understand adding black bars over documents is closer to a sticky note than a marker.
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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.
How is copying text from a PDF a hack?
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.
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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.
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I choose to believe that this was done deliberately by disgruntled FBI agents.
It was probably just incompetence, but let me believe what I want.
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Someone shouldn’t have blabbed about it so quickly. There are more files to release, and now they will do a better job redacting them.
Exactly
I was gonna say, "Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake".
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This is what happens when you pull in people that don’t normally do records management. They redact using black highlighter instead of the redaction tool.
Or, this is what happens when people who work for the government really hate Donald Trump.
Malicious compliance
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You can literally just copy and paste the entire in redacted docs.
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