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Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children

There was someone who reported that due to the incompetence of whitehouse staffers, some of the Epstein files had simply been “redacted” in ms word by highlighted the text black, so people were actually able to remove the reactions by turning the pdf back into word and removing the black highlighting to reveal the text.

Who knows if some of the photos might be the same issue.

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KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s, not how images like png or jpgs work.

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- unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  In the case of what wound up on Roman Numeral Ten (formerly twitter) that’s correct, but given the actual PDF dump from the gov, if they just slapped an annotation on top of the image it’ll be possible to remove it and reveal what’s underneath.
  
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  - KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I didn’t realise that they released the images as pdfs too.
    
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unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It was simpler than that. You can just copy the black highlighter text and paste it anywhere.

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- klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  “Hackers used advanced hacking to unredact the Epstein files!” - Actual headline. The “hackers” did just Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, opens word processor, Ctrl+V
  
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  - bcgm3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, opens word processor, Ctrl+V
    
    DID YOU JUST DOWNLOAD A VIRUS ON MY KEYBOARD?
    
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    klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No regrets! runs away with all of your data in a comically large sack
    
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