My humble yuletide shitpost. It’s the giving season, don’t you know?
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It could have been incompetence, yes… Or it could have been someone who knew this would slip by the Trump loyalists and end up getting published.
True enough. I waffle between good intention and incompetence.

Both things could be true at once.

But it’s far more likely they’re all just that stupid.

Well even if it were intentional, that individual was dependent on the incompetence and they were right.
Oh I get it because they’re stupid
I would do that if given the opportunity.
Ah yes, the famously super-competent FBI directed by political loyalists who’s only qualifications are heavy plastic surgery and blind faith in an evil idiot.

If anyone like me was looking for proof this is actually possible in the files:

Broe’s video showed him copying several paragraphs from one document in the DOJ’s Epstein library/2022.03.17-1%20Exhibit%201.pdf) from the “Court Records” section. While the paragraph Broe selected includes several redactions, all of the redactions were removed after Broe pasted the paragraph in question into a Word document. AlterNet was able to confirm that that specific document’s redactions could be read in Word, as well as in Mac’s Pages application and in Google Docs.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6yrpknzx7zqsvzfxrljm3q3b/post/3maoa7cssos2f

Jake Broe (@realjakebroe.bsky.social)

Anyone can read the redactions of the Epstein Files by just copying and pasting them into a word doc. The people at Trump's Justice Department are so stupid they used Adobe Acrobat to black out the documents.

Bluesky Social
Nothing will happen.
c’mon man don’t be a chud. If everyone expects nothing to happen nothing will. If everyone calls for something to happen there’s a higher chance it will

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

Hanlon's razor - Wikipedia

This is the crazy thing. This is some kind of invocation of Poe’s Law around Hanlon’s Razor. I want to believe this is someone on the inside resisting, but we’ve already seen so many examples of this administration’s gross incompetence that I don’t feel certain of that. It’s this real incompetence? Or resistance as a parody of that incompetence?
There is a non negligible chance that some of this was done on purpose.
True that. We can hope there’s an insider doing the right thing. But, we are dealing with the Trump admin that sent a lot of institutional knowledge packing. Instant karma gonna getcha.
I was wondering that too.

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🧅🧅🧅🧅🧅

Is there a collection/description of all the data gathered this way?
That was my exact response when I saw this yesterday
i like this one because it was LITERALLY the adobe highlighter tool set to black
Man that was embarrassing

Working IT, it’s impressive how many people don’t understand basic computer functions. Even young people who grew up with technology. I impressed someone by fixing something by quitting and relaunching an app the other day. C’mon…

For those who don’t know, the title of the post refers to an error code, ID-Ten-Tee, meaning IDIOT.

Another would be PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.

Even young people who grew up with technology.

There is now a middle sweet spot of computer literacy that spans Gen X and Millennials. When you go younger than that, you start running into people who never owned a normal computer growing up and only ever used smartphones/tablets.

By making devices simple enough for grandma to use, we inadvertently fostered a new generation of people who are as computer literate as grandma.

I got out of tech because I assumed Gen Z would be way better at it than I was.

I got back in when I realized, I was one of the generation that actually knows this shit, without having a CS degree even.

You got a Counter Strike degree which taught you all the basics
Layer 8 issue.
I get this reference.
I mean DOGE hired dozens of high school and college students running amok with AI in critical systems. It was a pretty coordinated attempt at culling professionals.
Oooh, those hackers who crtl-c ctrl-v are so damn smart!
this is how I feel when I was on the FBI page and saw the now deleted trump photo before they deleted it. Surreal experience.
Or, normalized. The trump regime are the “radicals.”
If you are talking about the photo of the photos in EFTA00000468.pdf, that’s back online.

bad apple FBI redactions

Back in my days, it was only ID10T. The s is new >_<
Weren’t there 1000 FBI agents working on those files? Shouldn’t at least one of them know?
Maybe they are not stupid. Maybe some junior analyst don’t agree with this so they left like that on purpose
Maybe a mix of both. Spite and stupidity is a deadly combo
A single junior analyst causing such a breach of redacted information would still point towards incompetence on an organisational level. This should really be something every person who works in publishing documents with redacted informations should be trained to spot.
Maybe they print it to check it 🤔
oh you would be so so surprised by the things I saw as a cybersecurity auditor

This is a really important part of the CIA guide to sabotaging Fascism. www.cia.gov/static/…/SimpleSabotage.pdf

Don’t encourage good people to quit.

It is not resolving for me

Here you go my good sir, and keep up the fight.

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A 404 Media reader made a PDF version of the World War II-era manual that's going viral right now.

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GOOD! (Jk, fuck facists)
It might be a choreographed “gotcha” too. Like they intentionally made the documents like that so people would think they found out The Big Secret and stop pushing for other files that could still be completely hidden. Idk though, it also seems really generous to think this administration could do anything that smart.
What additional information could be worst than what everyone already know. The peoblem in america today is not lack of proof or knowledge
I was wondering that too, fake redaction on false allegations and unverifiable allegations, real redaction on allegations that can be corroborated.

IIT: People who think they’re oh so smart.

Also ITT: Those same people thinking Trump personally hired the people redacting the files.

if they find out nothing will be released. just pretend you’re upset and it will continue happening. give them enough rope to hang themselves.

Is there any archived version of these files somewhere?
It’s possible that the right people in the administrator wanted to “redact” them like this.