jj4211 comments on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Some of the reactions are some in an effective way, and I assume this example is one of them. The problem being evidently they didn't think any what might be in big base64 blobs in the PDF, and I guess some of these folks somehow had their email encoded as PDF, which seems bonkers....

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[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 9 points 9 months ago

Some email programs did that, especially when there was special formatting involved. I seem to recall Thunderbird doing it in the past, as well as outlook.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

had their email encoded as PDF

Doesn't compute, please explain.

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I guess the same way email can have html as an attachment for the same thing a plaintext does, evidently some of these mails suggested a mailer actually pdf encoded the email and attached, as well as the plain text.

So when someone replied with plaintext the base64 encoded PDF that they were replying to got 'quoted', meaning the unredacted email they were replying to is in there, just messy due to font confusion in the provided format.

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Or did they just initially export the emails from Outlook as pdfs for the redaction process?

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

Ah, makes sense, thanks.

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