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Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Post by legitster »

Given how much of a hot mess PDFs are in general, it seems like it would behoove the government to just develop a new, actually safe format to standardize around for government releases and make it open source.

Unlike every other PDF format that has been attempted, the federal government doesn't have to worry about adoption.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

#32

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legitster wrote: post #31

Given how much of a hot mess PDFs are in general, it seems like it would behoove the government to just develop a new, actually safe format to standardize around for government releases and make it open source. Unlike every other PDF format that has been attempted, the federal government doesn't have to worry about adoption.

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Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

#33

Post by derwiki »

legitster wrote: post #31

Given how much of a hot mess PDFs are in general, it seems like it would behoove the government to just develop a new, actually safe format to standardize around for government releases and make it open source. Unlike every other PDF format that has been attempted, the federal government doesn't have to worry about adoption.

JPEG?

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

#34

Post by rockskon »

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.

Yeah - they'll take these lessons learned for future batches of releases.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

#35

Post by thereisnospork »

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.

Considering the justice to document ratio that's kind of on them regardless.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

#36

Post by legitster »

derwiki wrote: post #33
legitster wrote: post #31

Given how much of a hot mess PDFs are in general, it seems like it would behoove the government to just develop a new, actually safe format to standardize around for government releases and make it open source. Unlike every other PDF format that has been attempted, the federal government doesn't have to worry about adoption.

JPEG?

That's not really comparable - It needs to be editable and searchable.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

#38

Post by jjwiseman »

percentcer wrote: post #11

This is one of those things that seems like a nerd snipe but would be more easily accomplished through brute forcing it. Just get 76 people to manually type out one page each, you'd be done before the blog post was written.

Or one person types 76 pages. This is a thing people used to do, not all that infrequently. Or maybe you have one friend who will help–cool, you just cut the time in half.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

#40

Post by dagi3d »

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.

the issue is that mistakes can't be fixed in the sense once they are discovered, it doesn't matter if they are eventually redacted
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