…it’s safe to say that Pam Bondi’s DoJ did not put its best and brightest on this (admittedly gargantuan) undertaking
Actually they did. It’s just that their best and brightest are fairly dim.
It could also have been incompetence as a form of resistance, for all we know, or a combination of both.
This. If I didn’t agree with what they’re doing (and I don’t) and I wanted to resist I would do my best to steer towards a reversible redaction method. Then just feign ignorance.
Someone should write an update to the Simple Sabotage Field Manual.
This is really great, dont tell this to anyone!
They are still releasing more parts of the Epstein files!
Take the advice of Napoleon: Never interrupt the enemy while they are making a mistake!
yeah, I’m always a bit annoyed when people laught at the incompetence.
Let them.
Heck, some of it might even be intentional. Don’t take away tools for leakers
Amazing what a bit of knowledge, intelligence and competency can achieve.
I am not intelligent enough to understand any of it but that was a fun read.
TIL the origin of Courier.
Long story short:
- Some of the emails in the file dump had attachments.
- The way attachments work in emails is that they’re converted to encoded text.
- That encoded text was included - badly - in the file dump.
- So it’s theoretically possible to convert them back to the original files, but it will take work to get the text back. Every character has to be exactly correct.
Source: I’m a software developer and I’m currently trying to recover one of these attachments.
We just need those 76 page base64 printouts stuffed into captcha so we can crowdsource cracking them
I actually like this idea a lot (the crowdfunding part)
crowdsource, not crowdfund. One is sharing the work, the other is sharing the cost.
Is that nitpick really necessary? I would be donating my time, that’s my cost. So crowdfunded wouldn’t even be wrong unless you believe your time to be worthless.
Yes. They are different terms with different meanings, and the end result is different.
