Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday evening

Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday evening

People examining documents released by the Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case discovered that some of the file redaction can be undone with Photoshop techniques, or by simply highlighting text to paste into a word processing file.

Un-redacted text from these documents began circulating through social media on Monday evening. An exhibit in a civil case in the Virgin Islands against Darren K Indyke and Richard D Kahn, two executors of Epstein’s estate, contains redacted allegations explaining how Epstein and his associates had facilitated the sexual abuse of children. The exhibit was part of the second amended complaint in the state case against Indyke and Kahn.

  • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    32·
    20 hours ago

    Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

    • kelpie_is_trying@lemmy.world
      36·
      19 hours ago

      It’s a good general rule, but taking this as gospel makes it very easy for the malicious to pass off their cruelty as stupidity.

      If your goal is to reduce general stress, take it as it is and leave it there. If your goal is to distinguish what exactly is actually going on, then this is a tool worth keeping around, but it’s not going to do the job on it’s own.