• AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    52 minutes ago

    I thought this was just gonna be made up, but it’s true!!!

    Go to this document and look for the text “Defendants Kahn and Indyke controlled and directed the activities of the other entities and personal bank accounts of Epstein” so you can get to the part with redactions.

    Copy the redactions with Ctrl + C. Paste the redactions into either Notepad or another text editor that doesn’t support advanced formatting like highlights.

    Before:
    image

    After: (in notepad)
    image

  • Danitos@reddthat.comEnglish
    9·
    49 minutes ago

    I wonder if this was intentional? Maybe the FBI agent assigned to this file knew the whole censor thing was a huge fiasco and simply did this.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 minutes ago

      Deep down, I sincerely hope that it’s malicious compliance in favor of getting the truth out.

      That said, I absolutely will cop to dangerous blood-levels of copium here. Living in a kakistocracy so completely top-to-bottom incompetent as to do this by accident, is a level of peril that I’m not equipped to handle right now.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    3·
    24 minutes ago

    There is nothing trumps admin can’t fuck up. Its actually impressive.

  • dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    16·
    2 hours ago

    Also, I wonder if you can use brute force for a lot of name reductions. You know, have a list of highly suspicious names, set the same font and size of the surrounding text, and try to see if it fits in the black box.

    • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
      81·
      1 hour ago

      Yes yes you can let’s spin up the old ml machine and a copy of python3 just like our grandfather’s did

  • doesit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    23·
    2 hours ago

    teacher here. I blacked out words in a text for some test. kid held it up to the light. could read every word. was a pdf made in word.

  • Scratch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    50·
    4 hours 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.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      4·
      21 minutes 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

        • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          1·
          5 minutes ago

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

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          14 minutes ago

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

  • Delusions@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    30·
    4 hours 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

    • defunct_punk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      3 hours ago

      they drew a big black square with paint

      I have insider knowledge that that’s exactly how this image was made. [OC] please share it because I think the format is funny and would love to see it catch on