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Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by netsharc »

winddude wrote: post #85

here's another few to decode, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01804... https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA007755... https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA004349... and than this one judging by the name of the file (hanna something) and content of the email: "Here is my girl, sweet sparkling Hanna=E2=80=A6! I am sure she is on Skype " maybe more sinister (so be…

Geezus, with the short CV in your profile, you couldn't tell an LLM to decode "filename=utf-8"CV%5F%5F%5FHanna%5FTr%C3%A4ff%5F.pdf"? That's not "Bouveng".

Anyway searching for the email sender's name, there's a screenshot of an email of hers in English offering him a girl as an assistant who is "in top physical shape" (probably not this Hanna girl). That's fucking creepy: https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/varlden/epsteins-lofte-till...

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by gucci-on-fleek »

legitster wrote: post #31

Given how much of a hot mess PDFs are in general, it seems like it would behoove the government to just develop a new, actually safe format to standardize around for government releases and make it open source. Unlike every other PDF format that has been attempted, the federal government doesn't have to worry about adoption.

XPS [0] seems to meet these criteria. It supports most of the features of PDF, is an "official" standard, has decent software support (including lots of open source programs), and uses a standard file format (XML). But the tooling is quite a bit worse than it is for PDF, and the file format is still complex enough that redaction would probably be just as hard.

DjVu [1] would be another option. It has really good open source tooling available, but it supports substantially less features than PDF, making it not really suitable as a drop-in replacement. The format is relatively simple though, so redaction should be fairly doable.

TIFF [2] is already occasionally used for government documents, but it's arguably more complex than PDF, so probably not a good choice for this.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_XML_Paper_Specification

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by sznio »

wahern wrote: post #12
pimlottc wrote: post #5

Why not just try every permutation of (1,l)? Let’s see, 76 pages, approx 69 lines per page, say there’s one instance of [1l] per line, that’s only… uh… 2^5244 possibilities… Hmm. Anyone got some spare CPU time?

It should be much easier than that. You should should be able to serially test if each edit decodes to a sane PDF structure, reducing the cost similar to how you can crack passwords when the server doesn't use a constant-time memcmp. Are PDFs typically compressed by default? If so that makes it even easier given built-in checksums. But it's just not something you can do by throwing data at existing tools. You'll need…

>It should be much easier than that. You should should be able to serially test if each edit decodes to a sane PDF structure

that's pointed out in the article. It's easy for plaintext sections, but not for compressed sections. Didn't notice any mention of checksums.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by sznio »

nubg wrote: post #37

Wait would this give us the unredacted PDFs?

From the unredacted attachments you could figure out what the redacted content most likely contains. Just like the other sloppy redactions that sometimes hide one party of the conversation, sometimes the other, so you can easily figure out the both sides.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by chrisjj »

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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How can illegal firings be not illegal?

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by direwolf20 »

hsuduebc2 wrote: post #70
nixosbestos wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every second of my political consciousness in the United States has been acutely tinged with the awareness that a bunch of people, across most of the political spectrum live in a constant state of denial. Denial of personal responsibility or culpability. Denial of cognitive dissonance. Denial of any distinct, self-informed morals. Denial of anything but a fear of others. Denial of anything that makes them fearful or…

I will certainly feel less confident ridiculing conspiracy theories. I’d never believe Bill Gates would secretly slip antibiotics into his wife’s cocktail to treat an STI he got from a Russian prostitute on convicted pedophile estate. But here we are.

Epstein was involved in a UK corruption plot to reduce taxes on banker's bonuses. He was involved with insider trading around 9/11. This net is far reaching.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by direwolf20 »

yieldcrv wrote: post #115
PetriCasserole wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> become the mascot of 4chan was literally pedobear, what time frame are you referring to?

The owner of 4chan met with an Epstein associate 3 days before reinstating /pol/ which lead to the destruction of America.
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