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Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday evening
People examining documents released by the Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case discovered that some of the file redaction can be undone with Photoshop techniques, or by simply highlighting text to paste into a word processing file.
Un-redacted text from these documents began circulating through social media on Monday evening. An exhibit in a civil case in the Virgin Islands against Darren K Indyke and Richard D Kahn, two executors of Epstein’s estate, contains redacted allegations explaining how Epstein and his associates had facilitated the sexual abuse of children. The exhibit was part of the second amended complaint in the state case against Indyke and Kahn.



People have been making these same mistakes for literally decades… How does the government not have a 1-click dedicated tool for this yet?
https://slate.com/technology/2016/06/house-democrats-improperly-redacted-documents-wrong-but-they-re-not-alone.html
Because Elon probably dodged the people who knew their job
You think this was a mistake? Certainly some staffers did this on purpose, my friend. Good for them.
There are no heros working on this, any breaks we get are for to incompetence.
I genuinely can’t believe that there’s still anybody left who’s principled enough and isn’t afraid of losing their job (or much, much worse) in retribution.
They do have such tools. The CIA uses it all the time for their declassifications. This was done on purpose.
literally saw this shit in a “complete beginner” CTF challenge years ago