Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

theguardian.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

431–440 of 810 posts

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

#431

Post by user34283 »

RamRodification wrote: post #353
OtherShrezzing wrote: post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not that you can unredact them from scratch (you could never get the blue circle back from this software). It's that you can tell which of the redacted images is which of the origin images. Investigative teams often find themselves in a situation where they have all four images, but need to work out which redacted files are which of the origins. Take for example, where headed paper is otherwise entirely redacted…

Ok thanks. That sounds reasonable. >... and therefore you can unredact them from that readme is just not true then I guess?

I mean, even the "crop" isn't used at all correctly, is it?

I think the word should be "redact".

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

#432

Post by wkat4242 »

netsharc wrote: post #100
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"There are major differences between the Trump 1.0 and 2.0 administrations. In the Trump 1.0 administration, many of the most important officials were very competent men. One example would be then-Attorney General William Barr. Barr is contemptible, yes, but smart AF. When Barr’s DOJ released a redacted version of the Mueller Report, they printed the whole thing, made their redactions with actual ink, and then re-sca…

It's like Russian spies being caught in the Netherlands with taxi receipts showing they took a taxi from their Moscow HQ to the airport: corrupt organizations attract/can only hire incompetent people... https://www.vice.com/en/article/russian-spies-chemical-weapo... Anyone remember how the Trump I regime had staff who couldn't figure out the lighting in the White House, or mistitled Australia's Prime Minister as Pres…

Yes I remember that incident. It was big over here.

However I'm 100% sure that that was not a real spy incident. But rather just a 'message' to be sent from the Russian govt. The same way they have infiltrated our airspace with TU-95 bombers nearly every month for decades. Just a message "Hey we are still watching you".

When you see how ridiculously incompetent they were, not just their phone history but also the gear they had with them. It amounts to nothing more than a scriptkiddy's pineapple. There's no way they would have been able to do any serious infiltration into any kind of even remotely competent organisation.

Also the visible fumbling about in a carpark with overly complex antennas instead of something more hidden (e.g. an apartment across the street, a cabling tent or something). IMO the objective here was to get caught and stir a fuss.

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

#433

Post by Natfan »

h33t-l4x0r wrote: post #375
aucisson_masque wrote: post #334

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the same government that invited a journalist to a signal discussion about ongoing military strike in Yemen.

Maybe that was just a ploy to get us to underestimate them.

consider Hanlon's Razor

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

#434

Post by ithkuil »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #147
eviks wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but smart AF. When Barr’s DOJ released a redacted version of the Mueller Report, they printed the whole thing, made their redactions with actual ink, and then re-scanned every page to generate a new PDF with absolutely no digital trace of the original PDF file. This is a dumb way of doing that, exactly what "stupid" people do when their are somewhat aware of the limits of their competence or only as smart as the te…

Not at all. It's a procedure that's very difficult to unintentionally screw up. Sometimes that's what you want. > you can't simply search&replace with machine precision Sure you can. Search and somehow mark the text (underline or similar) to make keywords hard to miss. Then proceed with the manual print, expunge, scan process.

If the word you need to redact is also an English verb there is a risk that you accidentally mark the name of person in a context where that redacted word has a clear meaning in that context and can be used as a proof that such a term has been accidentally redacted because a large scale search&mark has taken place.

According to a random dictionary I found:

To trump. Verb. Surpass (something) by saying or doing something better.

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

#435

Post by ChocolateGod »

jonnybgood wrote: post #403
vanviegen wrote: post #371

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NATO works by projecting a united force. Nations unconditionally backing each other up. The USA is now clearly no longer a part of that. That's not to say that the USA will do nothing if a NATO member is attacked. It might. Or not.

For much of NATO history, the US is NATO. The US doesn’t want it to be like that anymore because it needs to strategically shift to the other side of the world. So, the US says “What if Europe can be NATO? If we can force them to meet the GDP commitment then maybe we don’t need to worry about them too much and commit less of our own resources to this theater.” But of course people interpret this as if the US is aband…

The US has been the biggest opponent to a European (or EU) army, fearing loss of influence and control. It was very much in US interest at the time.

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

#436

Post by DoneWithAllThat »

maCDzP wrote: post #405

Maybe someone knows law can answer this. Is it a crime to ”unredact” files in the US? You probably know that the information is classified since you are putting in the work. Where I live I believe it’s a crime if you share information that is classified even if it’s leaked. So I would not publicly brag about this online.

In the US this is protected by the first amendment. Exceptions apply only for military and government employees who agree to prosecution in such cases as a condition for employment or enlistment (getting a clearance, basically). For everyone else it is lawful.

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

#437

Post by ourmandave »

refurb wrote: post #160
ourmandave wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The pendulum swings. It always does. And all the powers SCOTUS gave the executive branch will eventually be in the hands of the Loyal Opposition. If it swings as far back you might even see universal health care, sane gun laws, fair wages, campaign finance reform, reproductive freedom, science based policy making, reigning in billionaires, etc.

You act like Trump’s policies don’t have broad support with a majority of voters.

Polls can be capricious, but Trump's recent numbers with some groups have seen big drops.

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

#438

Post by baby »

heavyset_go wrote: post #215
cmarschner wrote: post #14

Befuddling that this happened again. It’s not the first time - Paul Manafort court filing (U.S., 2019) Manafort’s lawyers filed a PDF where the “redacted” parts were basically black highlighting/boxes over live text. Reporters could recover the hidden text (e.g., via copy/paste). - TSA “Standard Operating Procedures” manual (U.S., 2009) A publicly posted TSA screening document used black rectangles that did not remov…

I want to believe this is malicious compliance.

Lots of loyalists have replaced people there. It's for sure incompetence.

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

#439

Post by exasperaited »

nothrabannosir wrote: post #156
bdangubic wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what is the US exactly currently if not dictatorship? is there a single thing “President” cannot do right now and if so who would be stopping him? so perhaps on paper US is not dictatorship much like Russia and China are not… We spend decades trying to fight these regimes and lost so much that now we are worse than them :)

> is there a single thing “President” cannot do right now Stand in the middle of fifth Avenue and shoot someone :) Have political enemies executed Get his face on Mount Rushmore Disband congress Disband the Supreme Court Keep Jimmy Kimmel off air Get Jon Stuart to shut up Get James comey indicted Get a national holiday named after him Etc. Even when we focus on things he tried to do, there is a lot he couldn’t. Let a…

He has functionally neutered Congress. It is almost completely meaningless and it is operating without an independent Speaker.

I think he could succeed in principle re: Mount Rushmore, to be honest. I think eventually people will cave in and agree to do it, and then they will just pray to cholesterol that they can wait it out.

Post reply on HN