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Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by simonh »

direwolf20 wrote: post #133
mschuster91 wrote: post #48

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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!

It's a tricky issue. In many countries it's not illegal and quite common for children to run around naked in public, during the summer on beaches for example, and so millions of people have holiday photos that are technically CSAM in their possession that they don't even know they have.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by direwolf20 »

simonh wrote: post #141
direwolf20 wrote: post #133

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Use encryption > even if you took the picture yourself. I'd hope the punishment is more severe in that case!

It's a tricky issue. In many countries it's not illegal and quite common for children to run around naked in public, during the summer on beaches for example, and so millions of people have holiday photos that are technically CSAM in their possession that they don't even know they have.

CSAM must be for sexual gratification usually. A medical anatomy textbook isn't CSAM.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by m000 »

cluckindan wrote: post #25
wahern wrote: post #12

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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…

On the contrary, that kind of one-off tooling seems a great fit for AI. Just specify the desired inputs, outputs and behavior as accurately as possible.

You might be taking the "I" in AI too literally.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by woooooo »

direwolf20 wrote: post #142
simonh wrote: post #141

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It's a tricky issue. In many countries it's not illegal and quite common for children to run around naked in public, during the summer on beaches for example, and so millions of people have holiday photos that are technically CSAM in their possession that they don't even know they have.

CSAM must be for sexual gratification usually. A medical anatomy textbook isn't CSAM.

And now you're in court strenuously arguing that you weren't sexually gratified by the photo of your kid in the tub.

Obviously most people are sensible most of the time but sometimes they are not.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by balamatom »

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

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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…

>I wish I could believe in more conspiracy theories.

Username checks out... well, I can help ya.

You start out easy, like "who invented all those damn conspiracy theories and introduced them into the public culture, anyway?"

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Krutonium wrote: post #24
fragmede wrote: post #16

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> Just get 76 people I consider myself fairly normal in this regard, but I don't have 76 friends to ask to do this, so I don't know how I'd go about doing this. Post an ad on craigslist? Fiverr? Seems like a lot to manage.

Amazon Mechanical Turk?

No, I don't think so :) -- https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/14/mechanical-turk-workers-ar...

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by brabel »

subscribed wrote: post #139
typeofhuman wrote: post #69

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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.

If someone violates a court order don’t they get arrested?? Can’t the judge pronounce the perpetrators should be arrested instead of just complaining?

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Evidlo wrote: post #55

I took at stab at training Tesseract and holy jeebus is their CLI awful. Just an insanely complicated configuration procedure.

Gods, I had a flashback just from you mentioning that.

I had a reasonably simple problem to solve, slightly weird font and some 10 words in English (I actually only missed one or two blocks for missing letters to cover all I needed).

After a couple of days having almost everything (?) I just surrendered. This seems to be intentionally hostile. All the docs scattered across several repositories, no comprehensive examples, etc.

Absolutely awful piece of software from this end (training the last gen).

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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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.

It's pretty clear who they should be reacting (victims/minors) and who they shouldn't (perpetrators).

They wasted months erasing Trump from that instead. So it's on them.

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