• infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net
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    6 months ago

    We needed to be quiet about this until they released all the tranches so that they’re all readable but nooo someone had to go and tweet about it.

  • Cruel@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    Happens all the time in the legal field. I once got a document in discovery that inverted the proper redactions. It was a roster of identifying information, all unredacted except for the actual relevant person in the case — that was redacted. 🤣

    Redacting with black boxes over text is more common of a mistake than that.

  • Bosht@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Guys. This is called resistance. These people are govt employees. We go through literally yearly training on maintaining classified documents. This wasn’t gross incompetence, it was fucking intentional. They knew they could do it because they knew leadership was too fucking stupid to check it properly. Believe it or not the govt is largely run by people, just like you and I. We are doing what we can where we can.

  • Delusions@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    There’s several pages that are just completely black that it’s like they drew a big black square with paint or they just copy pasted the same page probably

    • amniotic druid@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      they drew a big black square with paint

      I have insider knowledge that that’s exactly how this image was made. [OC]

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    I mean, are there tech literate MAGAts who would read the Epstein files to test their convictions?

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    6 months ago

    This is going to look obvious in hindsight but perhaps people should have kept this to themselves until every single Epstein file had been released. Because now the DOJ is just going to do their best to fix the problem.

    Not that that saying much these guys are the fucking keystone cops.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOP
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      6 months ago

      I think there were probably several people that found this before that didn’t say anything for this reason.

      I posted it on here because once it’s trending on TikTok and Bsky that ship has sailed

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Yeah, I wasn’t specifically referring to you. I just meant that people in general who’ve discovered this exploit maybe should have collectively kept it to themselves.

        • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          6 months ago

          If only. This is why I always laugh at the conspiracy theories that involve more than like 10 people, like all the scientists fabricating global warming. Humans are terrible at keeping secrets.

  • Scratch@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    This has happened before. Back when I used to browse the armpit of the internet there were classified military docs that had the same technique used.

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      6 months ago

      I find it funny that it took a few days for this to come out. That’s the very first thing I try if I see a big black box censoring something in a PDF or webpage is highlight to see if there’s text under there (practice from reading SCP Wiki and various forums with fun formatting options). Heck I randomly highlight as I read enough I’d probably even find that it was incorrectly redacted without even trying

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          6 months ago

          Only some - default is just black boxes. I remember at least one where the redactions were removed on click per word.

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              6 months ago

              Yeah, but not marked as spoilers - but it was integrated into the story. sadly i can’t remember which SCP it was, i am pretty sure it was in Series 4 (so somewhere between 3000 and 4000). I am reading SCPs on and off again, and am currently around scp 4800, so it’s been a few months that i saw it.

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          6 months ago

          I honestly could be misremembering. I swear I remember seeing somewhere that fake redacted stuff for flavoring/humor

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        6 months ago

        The first set (with nothing but blacked out pages) was properly redacted and in-fact contained no text data whatsoever. I think this is from the more recent files including the ones that were accidentally uploaded and pulled an hour later.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        I dunno, I feel like an intern might not be as dogmatic as a political appointee.

        “REDACT THESE DOCUMENTS TO PROTECT DEAR LEADER!!”

        “Man, I just need college credit so that I can get a job in this terrible economy…”

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    6 months ago

    More than likely, you just had Eric doing these certain files. See Eric was pulled in from field work to help redact. Probably used word 2 or 3 times in his life and hates email.