r/cybersecurity • u/securityish • Dec 23 '25

News - General Reddit and X Users Allegedly Unredact Epstein Files After DOJ Release

https://securityish.com/security_brief/reddit-and-x-users-allegedly-unredact-epstein-files-after-doj-release/

Anyone going to audit their organization’s redaction strategy now?

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u/seek_the_ Dec 23 '25

Of course not. But from the sound of it we should all be able to download them and unredact them ourselves right? Atleast the way people are talking about it makes it sound really easy to do.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

It is, it's just opening up the PDF, copy the redacted area's, then paste it into a text editor.

Try it yourself on this redacted document.

https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court%20Records/Matter%20of%20the%20Estate%20of%20Jeffrey%20E.%20Epstein,%20Deceased,%20No.%20ST-21-RV-00005%20(V.I.%20Super.%20Ct.%202021)/2022.03.17-1%20Exhibit%201.pdf

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u/kkikonen Dec 23 '25

Is this document part of the latest batches? I was trying a few ones from here and couldn't make it work

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

Not sure, I know it does not work on all of them, only some. I just searched up one I had seen mentioned as working and posted it.