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apftwb@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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apftwb@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures o…
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    How big is N though?

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      64

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      Since there’s 78 pages, I’m guessing at least 1 ambiguity per page? Anyways, it’s dreadfully big.

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        2^78 is large but computers can do an awful lot per second, so if only about some the pages contain attachments 2^40-55 is something you could bruteforce in weeks if you can do millions of attempts a second

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          I have never looked into the details of an OCR, but if it’s a classifier it should give the it’s confidence in being a 1 or L so you can start with the low confidence characters.

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      Asking the real questions

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