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Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them?

I’m no expert, but I would think that altering evidence is a huge risk.

If you want the changes done by experts, so they’re harder to identify, you have to let the experts in on what you’re doing. That means more potential leakers.
If you make any changes that contradict the physical evidence, you’ve outed yourself.
The changes you make can be credibly contradicted by people who have seen the unedited versions.
You might have to change a lot of stuff, especially if your boy was very close to the sex trafficker in question.

If you get caught, you’ve just made the problem 100x worse, as a lot of people are just going to assume your guilt as soon as they hear you’ve tampered with the evidence.

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meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Pro-tip. Blame it on the dems. His base would eat that shit up. Doesn’t matter that it makes no sense.

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thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

If you make any edits that contradict the physical evidence, you’ve outed yourself.

We’re talking about people that contradict both themselves and physical reality on a daily basis without their supporters batting an eye.

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Largely why I asked this. Still haven’t found a good answer that doesn’t outline how they might be caught. How cares?!
  
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imrighthere@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It makes no difference how good they are at photoshop, there is software that will highlight changed portions of photos in red. Skill won’t prevent that.

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- pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  There is no such reliably working software. I’d love to be proven wrong, but I’ve looked into it enough that I’m quite confident it does not exist
  
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- thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Export to jpeg. Compress.
  
  Can decent edits still be reliably detected?
  
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- meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  No no. Abrego Garcia clearly had “MS-13” tattooed on his knuckles. That was no photoshop.
  
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fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
about #1, not only this makes number of potential leakers higher (intentional or not - by opsec failures) but also this narrows down number of loyal, reliable people who also won’t fuck up the job real fast

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