A lot of people are complaining about the extent of the redactions - all those thick black lines - in the recently-released Epstein files. And, of course, some people are finding ways round them.
Apparently, if you just copy the text, and paste it into a new unformatted document, some of the redactions disappear, a known security flaw in some PDF documents. (I'm not sure why it should work for some documents and not others.) Others say that, if you take a screen shot on your phone and play around with some standard image-editing features (like brightness, contrast, etc), you can start to see the redacted text.
None of this is very lawful, I'm guessing but given that very few people trust the Trump administration to redact things fairly, it's not surprising that people are trying.
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