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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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> Information leakage may also be occurring via PDF comments or orphaned objects inside compressed object streams, as I discovered above. hopefully someone is independently archiving all documents my understanding is that some are being removed

Are they being removed or replaced with more heavily redacted documents? There were definitely some victim names that slipped through the cracks that have since been redacted.

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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.

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

#35

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.

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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.

I'm pretty sure Epstein tried to meet with moot at least once: https://www.jmail.world/search?q=chris+poole

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haven't seen anything particular about that, but lots of the documents with names that were half-redacted contain OCRd text that is completely garbled, but olmocr-2-7b seems to handle it just fine. Unsure if they just had sucky processes or if there is something else going on.

Might be a good fit for uploading a git repo and crowdsourcing

Was my first impulse too but not sure I trust that unless I could gather a bunch of people I trust, which would mean I'd no longer be anonymous. Kind of a catch22.

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

#38

> Information leakage may also be occurring via PDF comments or orphaned objects inside compressed object streams, as I discovered above. hopefully someone is independently archiving all documents my understanding is that some are being removed

I think some of the released documents included images of victims, which where redacted. So it's not necessarily malicious removals

That's my understanding too, so archiving the unredacted images could mean holding CSAM.

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

#39

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.

I'm pretty sure Epstein tried to meet with moot at least once: https://www.jmail.world/search?q=chris+poole

He met with moot ("he is sensitive, be gentile", search on jmail), and within a few days the /pol/ board got created, starting a culture war in the US, leading to Trump getting elected president. Absolutely nuts.

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

#40

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.

I'm pretty sure Epstein tried to meet with moot at least once: https://www.jmail.world/search?q=chris+poole

That is a crazy amount of emails from/about moot...
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