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Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by direwolf20 »

MadnessASAP wrote: post #98
hsuduebc2 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I wish I could believe in more conspiracy theories. At least then I might believe there was some sort of master plan, that some individual or group had some image of a better world (to them) and that the world was being steered somewhere. Unfortunately no, it just seems to be greed, incompetence, and incompetent greed. At least when a tank drives over a protestor somebody gets to be on the side of the tank. When the…

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

Epstein was trying to remove tax on banker bonuses in the UK for some reason.

There might not be a single master plan but holy hell is this stuff intertwined with everything that happens.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by rcakebread »

eek2121 wrote: post #20
chrisjj wrote: post #7

> it’s safe to say that Pam Bondi’s DoJ did not put its best and brightest on this Or worse. She did.

I mean, the internet is finding all her mistakes for her. She is actually doing alright with this. Crowdsource everything, fix the mistakes. lol.

Sicko.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by direwolf20 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #48
typeofhuman wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

There's more than enough credible reports of CSAM in the Epstein Files dump - more than enough for me to not go and download even a single file of them myself, simply because German law does not care about why you are in the possession of CSAM, even if you took the picture yourself. The legal situation regarding CSAM is very strict no matter which country, and I better hope no one here will actually be dumb enough to…

Use encryption

> even if you took the picture yourself.

I'd hope the punishment is more severe in that case!

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by chrisjj »

mschuster91 wrote: post #48
typeofhuman wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

There's more than enough credible reports of CSAM in the Epstein Files dump - more than enough for me to not go and download even a single file of them myself, simply because German law does not care about why you are in the possession of CSAM, even if you took the picture yourself. The legal situation regarding CSAM is very strict no matter which country, and I better hope no one here will actually be dumb enough to…

If those reports are true then what we have is not just an effective deterrent for download and distribution of the set, but legally prosecutable malware targetting anyone who does, empowered by the Interpol CSAM database to which the DOJ should probably already released the offending material.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by direwolf20 »

wtcactus wrote: post #114

My non political take about this gift that keeps on giving is that: PDF might seem great for the end user that is just expected to read or print the file they are given, but the technology actually sucks. PDF is basically a prettify layer on top of the older PS that brings an all lot of baggage. The moment you start trying to do what should be simple stuff like editing lines, merging pages, change resolution of the i…

It's meant as a printer replacement format, hence "print to PDF". It's a computer file format about equivalent to a printed document. Like a printed document, you can't just change its structure and recompile it.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by direwolf20 »

SomaticPirate wrote: post #78

Are there archives of this? I have no doubt after this post goes viral some of these files might go “missing” Having a large number of conspiracies validated has lead me to firmly plant my aluminum hat

https://github.com/yung-megafone/Epstein-Files

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by myduck_hacker »

nialv7 wrote: post #82
pests wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it was a public event attended by 450 people: https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2012/dubin-breast-... https://www.businessinsider.com/dubin-breast-center-benefit-... Even names match up, but oddly the date is different.

looks like we have it. in the end it's pretty mundane...

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Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by hypeatei »

blindriver wrote: post #29

On one hand, the DOJ gets shit because it was taking too long to produce the documents, and then on another, they get shit because there are mistakes in the redacting because there are 3 million pages of documents.

The zeitgeist around the files started with MAGA and their QAnon conspiracy. All the right wing podcasters were pushing a narrative that Trump was secretly working to expose and takedown a global child sex trafficking ring. Well, it turns out, unsurprisingly, that Trump was implicated too and that's when they started to do a 180. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by subscribed »

typeofhuman wrote: post #69
roywiggins wrote: post #58

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How about court orders? https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/ice-violations-judge-... > ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence," Schiltz said, adding that he counted 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/frustrations-from-judge-prosecu...

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At this point you're taking a piss, this is not a honest discussion stance.

Judges themselves complained about their own orders being ivolated/ignored. Repeatedly.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by subscribed »

mschuster91 wrote: post #48
typeofhuman wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

There's more than enough credible reports of CSAM in the Epstein Files dump - more than enough for me to not go and download even a single file of them myself, simply because German law does not care about why you are in the possession of CSAM, even if you took the picture yourself. The legal situation regarding CSAM is very strict no matter which country, and I better hope no one here will actually be dumb enough to…

That might be intentional tbh, to make the database toxic to limit the spread.
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