Am I crazy or didn't the same thing happen with Epstein's phone book some years ago? Coincidence?
Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but smart AF. When Barr’s DOJ released a redacted version of the Mueller Report, they printed the whole thing, made their redactions with actual ink, and then re-scanned every page to generate a new PDF with absolutely no digital trace of the original PDF file. This is a dumb way of doing that, exactly what "stupid" people do when their are somewhat aware of the limits of their competence or only as smart as the te…
Not at all. It's a procedure that's very difficult to unintentionally screw up. Sometimes that's what you want. > you can't simply search&replace with machine precision Sure you can. Search and somehow mark the text (underline or similar) to make keywords hard to miss. Then proceed with the manual print, expunge, scan process.
You process doesn't make sense, why wouldn't you just black box redact right away and print and scan? What does underline then ink give you? But it's also not the process described in the blog
> that's very difficult to unintentionally screw up.
You've already screwed up by leaking length and risking errors in manual search&replace
Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
#153Part of me wonders whether they had some of the text under the "redactions" changed too.
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#154It has become more plausible that nothing of value was released and the level of obviously poor redaction was done as a tarpit to own the libs.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I open your laptop and guess your password then that counts as hacking you in both legal and security terms You don't need to do some sophisticated thing for it to be considered hacking
If you were blind would a screen reader read the documents? Thats not a hack.
If your intent was to circumvent the redactions it would be
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you truly believe the US is currently a dictatorship?
what is the US exactly currently if not dictatorship? is there a single thing “President” cannot do right now and if so who would be stopping him? so perhaps on paper US is not dictatorship much like Russia and China are not… We spend decades trying to fight these regimes and lost so much that now we are worse than them :)
> is there a single thing “President” cannot do right now
Stand in the middle of fifth Avenue and shoot someone :)
Have political enemies executed
Get his face on Mount Rushmore
Disband congress
Disband the Supreme Court
Keep Jimmy Kimmel off air
Get Jon Stuart to shut up
Get James comey indicted
Get a national holiday named after him
Etc.
Even when we focus on things he tried to do, there is a lot he couldn’t. Let alone when you look at things he didn’t try to do.
Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but smart AF. When Barr’s DOJ released a redacted version of the Mueller Report, they printed the whole thing, made their redactions with actual ink, and then re-scanned every page to generate a new PDF with absolutely no digital trace of the original PDF file. This is a dumb way of doing that, exactly what "stupid" people do when their are somewhat aware of the limits of their competence or only as smart as the te…
> this type of redaction eliminates the possibility to change text length This is the only weakness of Barr's method. > it doesn't eliminate the risk of non-redaction since you can't simply search&replace with machine precision Anyong relying on automated tools to redact is doing so performatively. At the end of the day, you need people who understand the context to sit down and read through the documents and strike…
> This is the only weakness of Barr's method.
Of course it isn't, the other weakness you just dismiss is the higher risk of failed searches. People already fail with digital, it's even harder to do in print or translate digital to print (something a machine can do with 100% precision, now you've introduced a human error)
> At the end of the day, you need people who understand the context
Before the end of the day there is also the whole day, and if you have to waste the attention of such people on doing ink redactions instead of dedicating all of their time to focused reading, you're just adding mistakes for no benefit
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#158I wonder if any of this is a conscious act of resistance vs. just incompetence. And yes, I've heard of Hanlon's Razor haha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
Another option: also change some of the text underneath.
Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
#159"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" - Napoleon Bonaparte Let all the files get released first. Then show your hacks.
Also don’t assume the mistake wasn’t intentional.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you truly believe the US is currently a dictatorship?
The pendulum swings. It always does. And all the powers SCOTUS gave the executive branch will eventually be in the hands of the Loyal Opposition. If it swings as far back you might even see universal health care, sane gun laws, fair wages, campaign finance reform, reproductive freedom, science based policy making, reigning in billionaires, etc.
You act like Trump’s policies don’t have broad support with a majority of voters.