Wait would this give us the unredacted PDFs?
I think it's the PDF files that were attached to the emails, since they're base64 encoded.
Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
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#42> 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.
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.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, the internet is finding all her mistakes for her. She is actually doing alright with this. Crowdsource everything, fix the mistakes. lol.
Let's see her sued for leaking PII. Here in Europe, she'd be mincemeat.
The US administration is, at present, regularly violating the law and ignoring court orders. Indeed, these very releases are patently in violation of multiple federal laws -- they're simultaneously insufficiently-responsive to meet the requirements of the law requiring the release of the files and fall afoul of CSAM laws by being incompletely redacted.
The challenge, as we're all experiencing together, is that the law is not inherently self-enforcing.
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#44Nerdsnipe confirmed :)
Claude Opus came up with this script:
It produces a somewhat-readable PDF (first page at least) with this text output:
(I used the cleaned output at https://pastebin.com/UXRAJdKJ mentioned in a comment by Joe on the blog page)
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's see her sued for leaking PII. Here in Europe, she'd be mincemeat.
The US administration is, at present, regularly violating the law and ignoring court orders. Indeed, these very releases are patently in violation of multiple federal laws -- they're simultaneously insufficiently-responsive to meet the requirements of the law requiring the release of the files and fall afoul of CSAM laws by being incompletely redacted. The challenge, as we're all experiencing together, is that the la…
Can you provide a couple examples of the laws they're violating?
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#46Given 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.
You’re thinking about this as a nerd.
It’s not a tools problem, it’s a problem of malicious compliance and contempt for the law.
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#47Why 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…
I wonder if you could leverage some of the fuzzing frameworks tools like Jepsen rely on. I’m sure there’s got to be one for PDF generation.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US administration is, at present, regularly violating the law and ignoring court orders. Indeed, these very releases are patently in violation of multiple federal laws -- they're simultaneously insufficiently-responsive to meet the requirements of the law requiring the release of the files and fall afoul of CSAM laws by being incompletely redacted. The challenge, as we're all experiencing together, is that the la…
Can you provide a couple examples of the laws they're violating?
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 provide actual links.
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#49You can use the justice.gov search box to find several different copies of that same email.
The copy linked in the post:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA004004...
Three more copies:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02153...
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02154...
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02154...
Perhaps having several different versions might make it easier.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US administration is, at present, regularly violating the law and ignoring court orders. Indeed, these very releases are patently in violation of multiple federal laws -- they're simultaneously insufficiently-responsive to meet the requirements of the law requiring the release of the files and fall afoul of CSAM laws by being incompletely redacted. The challenge, as we're all experiencing together, is that the la…
Can you provide a couple examples of the laws they're violating?
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 addition, one need only glance at the action in US courts to see egregious violations of the Constitution and valid court orders playing out daily.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26513988-trorder0128...
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230...