this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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What's all this stuff about people copy & pasting redacted text into notepad (or something) to reveal the full contents of the redacted files?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media
The article links to an example document with this defect. For example go to page 20, #90, it looks like this:
But if you select the text and copy/paste it you get the following:
(I just opened the PDF in Firefox and pasted into the hexbear comment box; no external tools needed.)
But if you open the PDF the OP is from, you will find that document was properly redacted, and you can't get the hidden info that way.