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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 the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures of random women in a way that makes individuals look guiltier than they really are, forgetting to redact credentials that made it possible for all of Reddit to log into Epstein’s account and trample over all the evidence, and the complete ineptitude that resulted in most of the latest batch being corrupted thanks to incorrectly converted Quoted-Printable encoding artifacts, it’s safe to say that Pam Bondi’s DoJ did not put its best and brightest on this (admittedly gargantuan) undertaking. But the most damning evidence has all been thoroughly redacted… hasn’t it? Well, maybe not.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

tl;dr there's a bunch of base64-encoded PDFs in the Epstein emails. Buddy had a hard time extracting them because the files are exported as images and the one and ell characters are almost indistinguishable.

Dude eventually managed to distinguish them. 🤷‍♂️

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 12 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Yeah I read all that and he never even shared any unredacted docs.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

Craked ... unredacted, from them, here :

(( Mout Sinai Dubin breast center 2012 invitation form ... )) :
https://archive.org/details/dbc-12-one-page-invite-with-reply
as i explained in other comment here at OOP s' post

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 39 minutes ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago)

Nobody ever has AFAIK.

Was this "poorly redacted" thing just a hoax from the outset? Perhaps even started by MAGA HQ to get us too exhausted by false and innocuous findings so that when the real paydirt hits the screens the swinging voters will be too jaded to care?

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 2 points 27 minutes ago

EFTA00400459 has been cracked, DBC12.pdf liberated ( 2026 February 7 )
https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/

That is from the very end of 1st blog :

UPDATE This was solved last night (). You can read about it in the follow-up to (this...linked above) article.