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'Someone' pointed Anons in the direction of a software tool called Ghidra which supposedly can remove redactions from the declassified documents. Evidently those black marks were not physically drawn on. Uh oh!
The treasure hunt begins as Anons get busy digging and regain control of the narrative!
Ghidra is a reverse engineering tool, not a "redaction" removal tool. And those black marks are in fact often physically written in, or the pages rendered with the marks as a image representation.
eah there have been a few mistakes where they rendered it, but those have been rare.
'Someone' pointed Anons in the direction of a software tool called Ghidra which supposedly can remove redactions from the declassified documents. Evidently those black marks were not physically drawn on. Uh oh!
As far as digital images go thy are made up of individual pixels with each pixel being assigned a color value. #00000 is #00000 (that's hex value for black). It is what it is, there is no underlying information.
As far as digital images go thy are made up of individual pixels with each pixel being assigned a color value. #00000 is #00000 (that's hex value for black). It is what it is, there is no underlying information.
You're right, but he is talking about documents, which can have widely varying differences in formats, including things where its "cover xy to x1,y1 with a black bar". But the vast majority of blacked out documents are image files in the end, with just the color values as you indicate.
But again, the other part is...this is a reverse engineering tool, it converts binary code into something more comprehensible by humans, it has nothing to do with the topic. Making those who claim its a super secret tool to unredact files-most of which are pictures, just such a weird attempt at trying to sound like its something it isnt.
Supposedly there are codes for the redactions. I'm not a tech person by a long shot but I read this elsewhere. We'll find out soon enough if bombshells start flying! Fingers crossed!
OP: don't forget to squirt some lemon juice on your computer monitor, that will reveal all the hidden messages behind that digital ink. Go Go do it now, no time to waste!
Now watching RedPill78's livestream (excellent channel for news) and he said he's seen no proof you can get rid of the redactions. He thinks it's just a rumor. But someone DM'd during the show to say it's possible but it depends on the version of the redactions. Might have more info on the 6pm show
Now watching RedPill78's livestream (excellent channel for news) and he said he's seen no proof you can get rid of the redactions. He thinks it's just a rumor. But someone DM'd during the show to say it's possible but it depends on the version of the redactions. Might have more info on the 6pm show
Now watching RedPill78's livestream (excellent channel for news) and he said he's seen no proof you can get rid of the redactions. He thinks it's just a rumor. But someone DM'd during the show to say it's possible but it depends on the version of the redactions. Might have more info on the 6pm show
As greywar pointed out, ghidra is a tool to reverse engineer code, it make so sense to use it to 'undo' redactions. UNLESS, the redaction's used an algorithmic way to perform the redacting (vs simply applying a black bar), think of the swirlies. If that is the case, AND the method is not too lossy, AND you had the application that did the redaction (or the library used), then you could possible reverse engineer the code and then effectively 'undo' it.
That said, the vast majority of redactions are simple black bars that really can't be 'undone'. Though, as again pointed out, some document formats store the text and the instructions to render the text separately and if the redaction is done at the presentation layer then one could get to the original raw text.
some document formats store the text and the instructions to render the text separately and if the redaction is done at the presentation layer then one could get to the original raw text.
I hope that is the case.
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