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Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

yetihehe wrote: post #291
agentifysh wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's absolutely bewildering how ridiculous everything has been so far in terms of competence and this really takes the cherry on the top near Christmas too. how much lower can they go ?!

USA is still very high, so they can go much much lower, but I think they might go to some still lower places, finding them where we didn't even know such places could exist. Some ideas: - Leave NATO - Start openly supporting Russia and North Korea - Arrest whole International Criminal Court - Preventively invade China

>Start openly supporting Russia

Already done.

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Post by maeln »

culi wrote: post #260
Dusseldorf wrote: post #40

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Colleagues whose full time job is doing this sort of thing for various bits of the government have told me this is exactly the case here. People from all over the government have been deputized to redact these documents with little or no prior training.

If there's that many people who have access to these files, I'm shocked there hasn't been leaks until this point.

Why risk leaking it and potentially getting caught, when you can do a bad job redacting instead :)

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Post by arendtio »

KnuthIsGod wrote: post #300

Print on paper. Physically cut out the pieces you want to send to remove. Scan. Still suspect that someone can undo this from data may have been accidentally steaganographed across non-deleted parts of the image.

I think even after printing and scanning there could still be jpg artfacts from the original (e.g. if you scan lossless).

However, I wonder whether heavily compressing the redacted image would help remove any unwanted artefacts. But the best solution is probably to render the original file from scratch, without compression, before redacting the image.

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

GistNoesis wrote: post #313
GistNoesis wrote: post #278

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If it's not done properly, and you happen at any point in the chain to put black blocks on a compressed image (and PDF do compress internal images), you are leaking some bits of information in the shadow casted by the compression algorithm : (Self-plug : https://github.com/unrealwill/jpguncrop )

And that's just in the non-adversarial simple case. If you don't know the provenance of images you are putting black box on (for example because of a rogue employee intentionally wanting to leak them, or if the image sensor of your target had been compromised to leak some info by another team), your redaction can be rendered ineffective, as some images can be made uncroppable by construction . (Self-plug : https://gi…

>Let's crop it anyway

That is not cropping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cropping_(image)

>Cropping is the removal of unwanted _outer_ areas from a photographic or illustrated image.

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Post by cryptoegorophy »

poglet wrote: post #199
gjm11 wrote: post #177

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Are you sure? I can't find any trace of any book by Richard Dawkins with a title much like that, and that doesn't seem like a very on-brand sort of cover pic for a book by him, and an image search for "Richard Dawkins book cover" doesn't turn up anything like it.

Most likely "I Am Me, I Am Free: The Robot's Guide to Freedom. - David Icke"

Omg. I am such an idiot!

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Post by bigyabai »

billy99k wrote: post #145
bdangubic wrote: post #62

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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 :)

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> Ukraine jailed all opposing politicians during the war with Russia and stopped having elections.

No, they did not jail "all" of the opposition. Fair elections cannot be held during an invasion, especially at the rate Russia frauds votes and candidates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusations_of_Russian_interfe...

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Post by vanviegen »

Tostino wrote: post #111
tdeck wrote: post #105

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The bigger difference from my perspective is that they have competent people doing the strategy this time. The last Trump administration failed to use the obvious levers available to accomplish fascism, while this one has been wildly successful on that end. In a few years they will have realigned the whole power dynamic in the country, and unfortunately more and more competent people will choose to work for them in o…

His last administration was filled with traditional Republicans. I may have disagreed with them on virtually every policy point, but they seemed to disagree with the most harmful Trump policies as well. We would have never agreed on the right policy, but we definitely agreed that his policy was not the right one.

> but they seemed to disagree with the most harmful Trump policies as well.

I imagine Republicans such as this still populate a majority of the house and Senate. If they disagree, they are sure making an effort to do so silently.

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Post by fc417fc802 »

user_7832 wrote: post #317
fc417fc802 wrote: post #233

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You realize we just went from (the legal equivalent of) "I accidentally mailed you my tax return" to "I accidentally mailed you a bomb". Like yeah, it remains illegal to retain possession of said bomb irrespective of the fact that someone intentionally sent it. That is ... not at all surprising? Beyond that you're clearly just trolling at this point, going to great lengths to manufacture an argument about a term that…

> Beyond that you're clearly just trolling at this point I think this is the greatest proof of the simultaneous validity of two different arguments. Disclaimer, I'm assuming (I think fairly) that you're in good faith. The funny thing is, to me, the other commenter's arguments are quite clear/obvious to me and make sense. Not that your points are wrong - but... I'm 99% sure the other person isn't trolling in the sligh…

> Y'all are just talking across each other.

Initially, perhaps. However note that my attempts to clarify exactly that are repeatedly followed by misconstruing my position. It's not so much that we disagree as that the supposed disagreement is about things I never said. The repeated failure to respond to what was actually said coupled with the combative tone is pretty much the definition of trolling. Of course that term does assume intent to an extent - if he's just having a bad day I'm not sure that technically qualifies. The end result is the same though.

BTW if you feel I've missed some insightful point of his do please elaborate.

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