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Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

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Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

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Post by RonanSoleste »

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

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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

They effectively already left NATO and openly support Russia already. ICC members are already under fire and some had their microsoft account banned by Trump. Trump will invade Greenland and Canada first. China is less of an priority.

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

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Post by user____name »

ycombigrator wrote: post #351
yetihehe wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Trump is a born banana Republic dictator...

I like to refer to MAGA as Banana Republicans.

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Post by rcbdev »

RonanSoleste wrote: post #361
yetihehe wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

They effectively already left NATO and openly support Russia already. ICC members are already under fire and some had their microsoft account banned by Trump. Trump will invade Greenland and Canada first. China is less of an priority.

> They effectively already left NATO

What the fuck are you talking about? Someone should tell Russia.

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

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Post by 333c »

layla5alive wrote: post #337
GistNoesis wrote: post #313

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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…

Right, using stenography to encode some parity bits into an image so that lost information can be reconstructed seems like an obvious approach - all sorts of approaches you could use, akin to FEC. Haven't looked at your site yet, will be interested to see what you've built :) Edit: I checked it out, nice, I like the lower res stenography approach, can work very nicely with good upscaling filters - gave it a star :)

steganography — stenography is courtroom transcription

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

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Post by __alexs »

cmarschner wrote: post #14

Befuddling that this happened again. It’s not the first time - Paul Manafort court filing (U.S., 2019) Manafort’s lawyers filed a PDF where the “redacted” parts were basically black highlighting/boxes over live text. Reporters could recover the hidden text (e.g., via copy/paste). - TSA “Standard Operating Procedures” manual (U.S., 2009) A publicly posted TSA screening document used black rectangles that did not remov…

This has happened so many times I feel like the DoJ must have some sort of standardised redaction pipeline to prevent it by now. Assuming they do, why wasn't it used?

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Post by Synaesthesia »

pfannkuchen wrote: post #184

Stupid question: why is the government even allowed to redact stuff? Isn’t the government keeping secrets from the people totally antithetical to democracy?

It's up to us to keep the government accountable. Democracy does if we don't put pressure on the government and participate actively in politics.

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Post by thdrtol »

cmarschner wrote: post #294
heavyset_go wrote: post #215

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I want to believe this is malicious compliance.

Since hundreds of people were involved the most likely explanation is incompetence

Once I worked for a company that got a quote in the form of a Word document. Turned out it had history turned on and quotes to competitors could be recovered.

There is a lot of incompitence when it comes to file formats.

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Post by exasperaited »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #54
brailsafe wrote: post #32

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Heh, have at it, here's the full spec: https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/assets/5b... Should take... a weekend tops? ;) PDF is crazy and scary

We will be able to say that AGI has arrived when we can hand that spec off to a model and tell it to build an Acrobat clone.

We will be able to say that AGI has arrived when the AI hands it back and says "no".
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