Heads-up: An update to this article has been posted. There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring…
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.
I am not intelligent enough to understand any of it but that was a fun read.
TIL the origin of Courier.
Long story short:
Source: I’m a software developer and I’m currently trying to recover one of these attachments.