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Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by pletnes »

pyrolistical wrote: post #10

It decodes to binary pdf and there are only so many valid encodings. So this is how I would solve it. 1. Get an open source pdf decoder 2. Decode bytes up to first ambiguous char 3. See if next bits are valid with an 1, if not it’s an l 4. Might need to backtrack if both 1 and l were valid By being able to quickly try each char in the middle of the decoding process you cut out the start time. This makes it feasible t…

You might need to backtrack a lot more, due to the intermediate compression step?

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by sorbus-25 »

pests wrote: post #92
elmomle wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your links are for the inaugural (first) ball in December 2011; OP's text referred to a second annual ball in December 2012.

You are right my first is incorrect but the second does seem to be from 2012.

DUBIN BREAST CENTER SECOND ANNUAL BENEFIT MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2012 HONORING ELISA PORT, MD, FACS AND THE RUTTENBERG FAMILY HOST CYNTHIA MCFADDEN SPECIAL MUSICAL PERFORMANCES CAROLINE JONES, K'NAAN, HALEY REINHART, THALIA, EMILY WARREN MANDARIN ORIENTAL 7:00PM COCKTAILS LOBBY LOUNGE 8:00PM DINNER AND ENTERTAINMENT MANDARIN BALLROOM FESTIVE ATTIRE

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by k33n »

mikeyouse wrote: post #66
typeofhuman wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you provide a couple examples of the laws they're violating?

They illegally fired the IGs responsible for whistleblowers and fraud in every department; https://www.nycbar.org/press-releases/firings-of-inspectors-... They illegally withheld funds (impoundment) from congressionally authorized/mandated expenditures and relied on pocket rescissions to defund programs they didn't like: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/pocket-rescissi... They keep illegally appointing un…

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Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by notenlish »

netsharc wrote: post #9
iwontberude wrote: post #4

This one is irresistible to play with. Indeed a nerd snipe.

I doubt the PDF would be very interesting. There are enough clues in the human-readable parts: it's an invite to a benefit event in New York (filename calls it DBC12) that's scheduled on December 10, 2012, 8pm... Good old-fashioned searching could probably uncover what DBC12 was, although maybe not, it probably wasn't a public event. The recipient is also named in there...

There's 70 results that come out when searching for "application/pdf" on the doj website

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by bryceacc »

typeofhuman wrote: post #71
ISL wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As noted above: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ38/pdf/PLAW-... : the Attorney General was to have produced the entirety of the Epstein files, with very narrowly-enumerated redactions, in December. She has not done so. Furthermore, there are numerous allegations that the documents that have been released contain CSAM, which (referencing the PDF above) may fall afoul of 18 U.S.C. 2252–2252A. In additio…

Allegations aren't evidence. Has the Administration actually been found guilty of violating the law - if that is even possible.

>if that is even possible

yes.... any administration can be found guilty of violating law, and should be dealt with accordingly.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by zzleeper »

k33n wrote: post #104
mikeyouse wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They illegally fired the IGs responsible for whistleblowers and fraud in every department; https://www.nycbar.org/press-releases/firings-of-inspectors-... They illegally withheld funds (impoundment) from congressionally authorized/mandated expenditures and relied on pocket rescissions to defund programs they didn't like: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/pocket-rescissi... They keep illegally appointing un…

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Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by altairprime »

WolfeReader wrote: post #15
percentcer wrote: post #11

This is one of those things that seems like a nerd snipe but would be more easily accomplished through brute forcing it. Just get 76 people to manually type out one page each, you'd be done before the blog post was written.

You think compelling 76 people to honestly and accurately transcribe files is something that's easy and quick to accomplish.

Non-engineers are perfectly willing to volunteer their time to do drudgery. It's one of my opseng career's distinguishing specialties: I'll do drudgery rather than code when appropriate, rather than avoiding it or sulking about it (as was a common response at work for some number of decades!). Learned that lesson when I was 18 from an internship (where I completely failed to deliver any work product due to trying to code around the work). It's part of why I'm going into accounting: apparently having the stamina for dreary work is rare?!

Also look up double/triple data-entry systems, where you have multiple people enter the data and then flag and resolve differences. Won't protect you from your staff banding together to fuck you over with maliciously bad data, but it's incredibly effective to ensure people were Actually Working Their Blocks under healthy circumstances.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by ChocMontePy »

ChocMontePy wrote: post #100
ChocMontePy wrote: post #49

You can use the justice.gov search box to find several different copies of that same email. The copy linked in the post: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA004004... Three more copies: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02153... https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02154... https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02154... Perhaps having several d…

Also, I found a different base64 encoding with a different font here: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA007755... This doesn't solve the "1 & l" problem for the pdf you are looking at, but it could be useful anyway.

And this might be a copy of the original pdf:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02702...

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