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Big news on the internet today as the United States Department of Justice wildly underestimated computer nerdsMahmoud Al-Qudsi (mqudsi), the founder of NeoSmart Technologies, is a nerd who specializes in computer forensics. His entire career (dating back over 2 decades) has been focused almost exclusively on data forensics, data restoration, and data backups.Because Mr. Al-Qudsi is a nerd who unironically enjoys painstakingly reviewing computer forensics at the byte level, something almost no one else on the planet enjoys, Mr. Al-Qudsi began exploring the recently released Epstein files.Today he released a write-up explaining the problems with the Epstein redactions, errors they left in the PDF files, ... and all sorts of other artifacts the Department of Justice accidentally left behind. By leveraging these different digital artifacts, it is possible for experts such as Al-Qudsi to reconstruct the files without their redactions.See subsequent post for his write-uptl;dr he's reverse engineering and reconstructing epstein files. but hard and will take lots of workpic: me trying to understand computer forensics based on fonts used