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Tech-savvy users discover a way around redacted parts of Jeffrey Epstein files
New York Post ^ | Dec. 23, 2025 | Anna Young

Posted on 12/23/2025 5:52:46 PM PST by nickcarraway

Tech-savvy sleuths have discovered a way to uncensor the heavily redacted files on notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, as the Department of Justice continues to release the documents.

Some portions of the documents, initially blacked out in Adobe Acrobat by the federal agency, pop up when copied and pasted into Google Docs or Microsoft programs like Word, The Post confirmed during a test run.

The Post, however, cannot confirm the veracity of the redactions.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 12/23/2025 5:52:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway; pookie18
FReeper pookie18 already showed us this morning the hackers hard at work trying to see through the redacted images.


2 posted on 12/23/2025 6:00:12 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, this will be interesting.

A properly done redaction with Acrobat Pro actually deletes the text and replaces it with just a black box. Upon creating a new copy of the document (this is the ‘properly done’ part), the metadata that might retain the text is also gone and there’s simply nothing to ‘recover’.

So either someone screwed up royally, or this is BS. I guess I’ll just sleep on it and see in the morning.

(Recovering text from *properly* redacted Adobe documents doesn’t work via the methods in the article- I’ve tried myself).


3 posted on 12/23/2025 6:01:47 PM PST by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: verum ago

Dan Rather should be consulted. Of course, if there’s no Trump material in there, Old Dan might not be available.


4 posted on 12/23/2025 6:08:49 PM PST by FirstFlaBn
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Is this like the fake Obama birth certificate with ‘layers’ that can be recovered?


5 posted on 12/23/2025 6:12:49 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: verum ago
Recovering text from *properly* redacted Adobe documents doesn’t work via the methods in the article- I’ve tried myself.

Adobe/PDFs have been around long enough that I am pretty sure they have the redaction function down.

6 posted on 12/23/2025 6:13:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (I have nro answers. Only questions.)
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To: nickcarraway

Technically Blondie is in violation of the law which says all documents must be released in 30 days. If she needed more time she should have said so. Time for her to go.


7 posted on 12/23/2025 6:14:42 PM PST by jimwatx
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To: verum ago
Try this method first,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7NsrC5mTIo&t=1s

works on a lot pages, lol. Not sure incompetence, on purpose, or thinking people would be too dumb to figure out this lazy way of redaction. About sums up government employee's' attitude towards the private sector individual.
8 posted on 12/23/2025 6:14:59 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Not this world but the next. Faith, justice, humility, hope, and most important, agape.)
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What law is that? Many documents take longer than that to create? So all government documents ever created have been released?


9 posted on 12/23/2025 6:16:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: FirstFlaBn

Now do Obama’s Birth Certificate, tech-savvy users.


10 posted on 12/23/2025 6:20:20 PM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: nickcarraway

Contempt of Congress and obstructing governmental administration. Now she’s let herself open for impeachment which Massie and Ro Khanna just filed for. She’s an idiot.


11 posted on 12/23/2025 6:22:37 PM PST by jimwatx
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To: jimwatx

She has more important things on her plate than your agenda.


12 posted on 12/23/2025 6:23:23 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: jimwatx

“Now she’s let herself open for impeachment which Massie and Ro Khanna just filed for. She’s an idiot.”

They are idiots. Like Trump’s, those filings are badges of honor.


13 posted on 12/23/2025 6:25:00 PM PST by TexasGator
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She has the obligation to obey the law! Most especially since she leads the DOJ and is considered the highest law enforcement person in the country. She should have said from the get go that there were way too many files to redact in that time period but instead just gives everybody the brush off as if there’s no issue with it. I bet Bongino left because he couldn’t stand this stupid woman.


14 posted on 12/23/2025 6:30:26 PM PST by jimwatx
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To: jimwatx

She may well be an idiot, but if she didn’t redact documents properly, might that also be a crime?


15 posted on 12/23/2025 6:32:05 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Jane Long

🔝🔝


16 posted on 12/23/2025 6:37:24 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

It wouldn’t be a crime but perhaps the victims could sue her. Don’t know if she’s covered by sovereign immunity or something being in government.


17 posted on 12/23/2025 6:37:50 PM PST by jimwatx
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To: nickcarraway

They blacked it out electronically... They should’ve printed the docs, blacked it out and then scanned it... Instead they just scanned it and blacked it out electronically which can be removed... electronically. Do-h!


18 posted on 12/23/2025 6:39:19 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: jimwatx

You and Schumer are singing the same song.


19 posted on 12/23/2025 6:40:22 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: jerod

“by accident?”


20 posted on 12/23/2025 6:40:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
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