Anyone knows why they released them at all? What does the administration get from it?
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2026
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The best and brightest don't work there anymore.
Or, malicious compliance by someone with a moral compass. Best is to somehow leak documents wholesale. But if that's not possible, I think the next best way to all but guarantee that the information gets out is to do a lousy job censoring, and let "The Internet" do the rest. It also makes the administration look even more stupid, especially in the eyes of technically minded folks.
But yeah, not the best and brightest, that's certainly a possibility.
tl;dr there's a bunch of base64-encoded PDFs in the Epstein emails. Buddy had a hard time extracting them because the files are exported as images and the one and ell characters are almost indistinguishable.
Dude eventually managed to distinguish them. 🤷♂️
Yeah I read all that and he never even shared any unredacted docs.
Craked ... unredacted, from them, here :
(( Mout Sinai Dubin breast center 2012 invitation form ... )) :
https://archive.org/details/dbc-12-one-page-invite-with-reply
as i explained in other comment here at OOP s' post
Just an invitation to a party?
A breast cancer party
Nobody ever has AFAIK.
Was this "poorly redacted" thing just a hoax from the outset? Perhaps even started by MAGA HQ to get us too exhausted by false and innocuous findings so that when the real paydirt hits the screens the swinging voters will be too jaded to care?
No the poorly redacted ones were real, from the first release. They were not redacted by the DOJ, they were old court documents. Afaik all of them were also already released unredacted.
What about decoding each of the areas both ways and test the amount of entropy in each instance?
EFTA00400459 has been cracked, DBC12.pdf liberated ( 2026 February 7 )
https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/
That is from the very end of 1st blog :
UPDATE This was solved last night (). You can read about it in the follow-up to (this...linked above) article.
tl;dr there was nothing in the decrypted file of interest- BUT it shows that more files may be recoverable. Impressive work, love to see it! <3