I remember back in the day if you forgot your password to a site you could copy the saved password on the login screen and paste it elsewhere to see it. That was always helpful.
Good job on replicating that on super sensitive documents. They can’t even crime right. lmao
astreeter2 on
I’ve seen this posted several times now, but people keep deleting it so the government doesn’t find out, lol.
Lewd_ReadNY on
>!Winning.!<
SirTiffAlot on
I’ll believe it when I see it
gabzilla814 on
I learned this one the hard way over 20 years ago when the software company I worked for at the time included screenshots of our application with field values redacted. Or at least we thought they were redacted.
You would think government officials in the year 2025 would know better.
Stewgy1234 on
This has to be bull. There’s no way. We’re cooked. This does in fact explain so much about the times we’re living in though.
brokenstack on
When Paul Manafort got caught my understanding was the redacted documents just had black boxes drawn over it.
Adobe acrobat will fully redact documents, stripping the text from the document entirely. It’s… Not hard
But damn people are so fucking bad at computers.
ASDF0716 on
Time to just start making shit up! The only way they could disprove it is by releasing the unredacted versions.
Raiden29o9 on
Oh god…. Please let this be true
This would be the second time they have fucked up trying to redact documents and posting them….. which really just says it all about this administration
margueritedeville on
I said this when they released them. Can’t wait to see what people uncover.
norcalginger on
It’s comical how few people know how to properly redact a pdf, it’s so easy! But a black box isn’t all there is too it people! Lmao
WTAFS_going_on on
I feel like this happened recently where classified information was leaked because someone didn’t know how to use Adobe.
LuminaraCoH on
Their incompetence is our salvation.
And it’s fucking hilarious.
RustyRapeaXe on
I was hoping this would be the case. I didnt dare jinx it.
Rinzy2000 on
Goddamn chucklefucks. All of them.
ETA: in this particular situation, I ain’t mad at it.
Rare-Adagio1074 on
Remember they said they spent all that money on overtime…
Live_Goal215 on
All i saw was a bunch of “hunter2” when I tried
tJa_- on
If nothing else, this might get 300k people to Google “Epstein files redacted” of some sort. Kinda smart.
qwote on
Has anyone done that yet? And archived it?
furikawari on
The ol’ “black highlight” instead of using an actual redaction tool. Bane of junior lawyers everywhere!
Edit: This actually happens pretty frequently and is just a sign of poor training. But it might be malicious compliance by someone at DoJ, which is fun to think about!
honesttruth2703 on
Ok so, where are the unpredicted files? I’m not doing all that.
Addled_Neurons on
They needed bigBalls on the team.
Distance2Tree on
Shhhhhhh! One of the young idiots might read this
Brilliant_Effort_Guy on
I mean you kind of start to believe they are going to construct their own downfall by sheer stupidity and incompetence
Little-Protection484 on
I wish they would save tech this to we get a good amount of redocumented info so its not fixed for anything important
SBEPTY on
Prove it!
sframtdr on
or is it a “feature” by an undercover whistle blower who knew people were smarter than that…
kananishino on
Why are people goobling this up as if it’s true?
SAlolzorz on
It’s like we ordered a government off Temu
Pablo_Hassan on
Just make sure someone rips it all before they take it down.
Chiiro on
Please tell me they just use the highlighter setting and turn it to Black.
soleobjective on
This should always be the first thing to check.
rememberall on
This is what happens when you eliminate all the smart people
roxinmyhead on
Man, gotta say, weirdly, this actually makes this Monday so much better than it’s been otherwise
TrainerWeekly5641 on
I’m just going to wait until people start releasing the unredacted files before getting excited about this. The Trump photo and several others got removed after being discovered so I don’t doubt that this error will get corrected.
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They have found the Ctrl-Z / Undo function!
anything interesting people have found?
I remember back in the day if you forgot your password to a site you could copy the saved password on the login screen and paste it elsewhere to see it. That was always helpful.
Good job on replicating that on super sensitive documents. They can’t even crime right. lmao
I’ve seen this posted several times now, but people keep deleting it so the government doesn’t find out, lol.
>!Winning.!<
I’ll believe it when I see it
I learned this one the hard way over 20 years ago when the software company I worked for at the time included screenshots of our application with field values redacted. Or at least we thought they were redacted.
You would think government officials in the year 2025 would know better.
This has to be bull. There’s no way. We’re cooked. This does in fact explain so much about the times we’re living in though.
When Paul Manafort got caught my understanding was the redacted documents just had black boxes drawn over it.
Adobe acrobat will fully redact documents, stripping the text from the document entirely. It’s… Not hard
But damn people are so fucking bad at computers.
Time to just start making shit up! The only way they could disprove it is by releasing the unredacted versions.
Oh god…. Please let this be true
This would be the second time they have fucked up trying to redact documents and posting them….. which really just says it all about this administration
I said this when they released them. Can’t wait to see what people uncover.
It’s comical how few people know how to properly redact a pdf, it’s so easy! But a black box isn’t all there is too it people! Lmao
I feel like this happened recently where classified information was leaked because someone didn’t know how to use Adobe.
Their incompetence is our salvation.
And it’s fucking hilarious.
I was hoping this would be the case. I didnt dare jinx it.
Goddamn chucklefucks. All of them.
ETA: in this particular situation, I ain’t mad at it.
Remember they said they spent all that money on overtime…
All i saw was a bunch of “hunter2” when I tried
If nothing else, this might get 300k people to Google “Epstein files redacted” of some sort. Kinda smart.
Has anyone done that yet? And archived it?
The ol’ “black highlight” instead of using an actual redaction tool. Bane of junior lawyers everywhere!
Edit: This actually happens pretty frequently and is just a sign of poor training. But it might be malicious compliance by someone at DoJ, which is fun to think about!
Ok so, where are the unpredicted files? I’m not doing all that.
They needed bigBalls on the team.
Shhhhhhh! One of the young idiots might read this
I mean you kind of start to believe they are going to construct their own downfall by sheer stupidity and incompetence
I wish they would save tech this to we get a good amount of redocumented info so its not fixed for anything important
Prove it!
or is it a “feature” by an undercover whistle blower who knew people were smarter than that…
Why are people goobling this up as if it’s true?
It’s like we ordered a government off Temu
Just make sure someone rips it all before they take it down.
Please tell me they just use the highlighter setting and turn it to Black.
This should always be the first thing to check.
This is what happens when you eliminate all the smart people
Man, gotta say, weirdly, this actually makes this Monday so much better than it’s been otherwise
I’m just going to wait until people start releasing the unredacted files before getting excited about this. The Trump photo and several others got removed after being discovered so I don’t doubt that this error will get corrected.