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A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

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Re: A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

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post #189

Stylometry works. I've seen it used it cases where the individual was identified from a group. One thing that is telling about the Epstein case study is how long it has stayed in public view. Pizzagate, which involved more powerful people, was shut down faster than I've ever seen for anything else. I still remember and have archived the more extreme content it's sick.

Pizzagate and Epstein are the same thing

Re: A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

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The democrats had these files and all that information in their power for what? 5 years? And what did they do? Stop making this a partisan issue. It’s not, and nobody that’s not completely biased beyond any rationality will ever see it as such.

Democrats do nothing because they are useless. Republicans do nothing because they are implicated.

Oh yes, I'm absolutely sure the Democrats were just sitting on a treasure trove of - only - Republican Party members' pedophile crimes for 5 years, and they did nothing because they are useless and couldn't get bothered with doing some work on it.

Seems sensible...

Re: A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The democrats had these files and all that information in their power for what? 5 years? And what did they do? Stop making this a partisan issue. It’s not, and nobody that’s not completely biased beyond any rationality will ever see it as such.

Democrats do nothing because they are useless. Republicans do nothing because they are implicated.

Democrats are complicit as well. Don't let them off the hook by making the mistake of thinking they're simply weak.

Democrats engaged in the same cover-up and lies and sexual abuse as the Republicans wrt Epstein. Democrats supported ICE and the murder of immigrants and citizens. Democrats supported American imperialism, oligarchy and genocide.

The parties aren't the same. Would we have the same open chaos, violence and instability under a Harris regime? Probably not. Would they have released any of the Epstein files on their own? Also probably not. Voting for the lesser (or more restrained) evil is valid when no good option exists but make no mistake the Democrats are not really a principled opposition party. It's mostly kayfabe.

Re: A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

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post #189

Stylometry works. I've seen it used it cases where the individual was identified from a group. One thing that is telling about the Epstein case study is how long it has stayed in public view. Pizzagate, which involved more powerful people, was shut down faster than I've ever seen for anything else. I still remember and have archived the more extreme content it's sick.

Pizzagate and Epstein are the same thing

They are not. Completely different groups.

Re: A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

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Interesting, there are a handful of PDFs in the drop that appear to be an email with a Base64 encoded attachment—inline. OCR is so bad of course that decoding the Base64 seems futile without a lot of effort. Example: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02609... (More mentioned here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1qu9az2/theres_unr... )

Would a few byte errors break a binary so much as to make it undecodable ?

Re: A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

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Not that I can speak from personal experience or anything... But somebody on an email chain may have requested a scanned version of the document to ensure there is no metadata and the employee might have found it easier to just flatten the pdf and apply a graphical filter to make the document appear like a scanned document. There might even be a webtool available somewhere to do so, I wouldn't know...

> the employee might have found it easier to just flatten the pdf and apply a graphical filter to make the document appear like a scanned document Is that remotely plausible? I can't imaging faking a scan being easier than just walking down the hall to the copier room.

You’re talking about 1,000 FBI agents locked in a building. There’s no printer.

Re: A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

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post #182

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Such a weird way to do it when it would be a vastly easier to just blow the document out to paper and re-scan it.

Vastly easier when you do it to one or a handful of documents. But if you want to do it to 2000 documents...

4 reems (4×500) is hardly a lot for commercial equipment to handle - paper trays will take a reem at a time. Document analysis would still show some shenanigans were in play, but you'd get a bit of variation at least.

Re: A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

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I found this part interesting: There are also other documents that appear to simulate a scanned document but completely lack the “real-world noise” expected with physical paper-based workflows. The much crisper images appear almost perfect without random artifacts or background noise, and with the exact same amount of image skew across multiple pages. Thanks to the borders around each page of text, page skew can easi…

The real question is: Which of the documents are the ones that are "simulating" scanned documents, and what political narrative do they reinforce? The only reason I can think of for why someone would want to do this is to pass off fraudulent or AI generated images as real.

A simpler explanation could be wanting to skip the print->sign->scan ceremony required by some institutions.

Re: A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

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Has anyone analysed JE's writing style and looked for matches in archived 4chan posts or content from similar platforms? Same with Ghislaine, there should be enough data to identify them atp right? I don't buy the MaxwellHill claims for various reasons but it doesn't mean there's nothing to find.

People always claimed this as a data leak vector but I've always been sceptical. Like just writing style and vocabulary is probably extremely shared among too many people to narrow it down much. (How people that you know could have written this reply?) The counter argument is that he had a very specific style in his mail so maybe this is a special case.

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