Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

Post by chrisjj » Fri, Feb 06, 2026, 1:01 PM UTC

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.

Post by 542354234235 » Fri, Feb 06, 2026, 1:18 PM UTC

typeofhuman wrote: post #71

ISL wrote: post #50

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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.

Post by JKCalhoun » Fri, Feb 06, 2026, 1:50 PM UTC

helterskelter wrote: post #42

eek2121 wrote: post #20

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

I wonder if this could be intentional. If the datasets are contaminated with CSAM, anybody with a copy is liable to be arrested for possession. More likely it's just an oversight, but it could also be CYA for dragging their feet, like "you rushed us, and look at these victims you've retraumatized". There are software solutions to find nudity and they're quite effective.

Post by JKCalhoun » Fri, Feb 06, 2026, 1:57 PM UTC

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…

Post by SketchySeaBeast » Fri, Feb 06, 2026, 2:09 PM UTC

adaml_623 wrote: post #113

helterskelter wrote: post #42

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I wonder if this could be intentional. If the datasets are contaminated with CSAM, anybody with a copy is liable to be arrested for possession. More likely it's just an oversight, but it could also be CYA for dragging their feet, like "you rushed us, and look at these victims you've retraumatized". There are software solutions to find nudity and they're quite effective.

Or it's distraction. Leave nudity in to use up attention that should be turning to analysis of what's been redacted. There's redaction to protect victims and there's redaction to protect specific co-conspirators in Epstein's spy ring