• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    This looks more like he’s discussing defenses to his case with his lawyer.

    Look at the e-mail that Epstein replied to, it seems to be specifically related to discussing his case. This appears to be from his lawyer

    <a bunch of discussion about hypothetical situations and the associated laws>

    Remember, though, that sex trafficking is inapplicable in your case. As I wrote in my August 11 memo, "In Epstein’s case, (1) he never transported any girl across state lines, and (2) he never traveled with the intent of soliciting prostitution from underage girls. (Because section 2423(b) is essentially an ‘attempt’ statute, it requires specific intent of wrongdoing. See, e.g., United States v. Sims, 428 F.3d 945, 959-60 (10th Cir. 2005).)

    Then the e-mail in the OP is sent.

    It’s gross, but my initial reading was that he’s creating a plan to travel and is trying to dodge laws. However, in reading the full context, it seems more like they’re talking about his cases.

    e: as discovered below, this e-mail is from August 2006, he was arrested 1 month before this, so this e-mail is almost certainly about his case and not about trying to find loopholes to do more crimes.

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      13 days ago

      You can’t say Epstein didn’t do those things. Prosecutors saying those things covering for themselves is the least reliable source in the world. As if there was nothing they could do even if they knew, which how could they know?

      All bullshit. They knew, or should’ve known. Acosta knew, bailed him out of state charges by getting them to defer to the feds then giving him a sweetheart deal. The only information they looked at was the stuff they couldn’t ignore because the Miami Herald.

      The only reason any of this stopped was because the Miami Herald’s dogged reporting and the brave victims that brought this all to light. Prosecutors deserve less than zero credit, they covered for these politically connected rapists every step of the way.

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          13 days ago

          Sorry I didn’t make clear I was refuting the text you quoted from the material, the “you” being the author of that. The prosecutors and other establishment types are the last ones to trust on Epstein as their careers were made or broken on covering or crossing.

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    12 days ago

    Sure, but you’re not an agent of the state and are more likely to be arrested for your cat videos than Epstein was about pedophilia.

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    12 days ago

    Do however keep in mind that the entire intent here seemed to be the creation of blackmail, it’s not just banality of evil but also ol Jeffy making sure that the dark desires of his marks was properly documented for mossad or whoever he was being funded by. He wasn’t worried about being caught by the state, he was an actor of the state.

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      12 days ago

      It’s the reason there’s so many pictures of Epstein photobombing near celebrities. And the celebrities knew it.

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    12 days ago

    Is the boot partition on a separate drive because the unencrypted partition would somehow reveal information about the drive that could be used to analyze the encrypted portions?

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      12 days ago

      Someone could install something on the unencrypted boot partition to leak the key next time it gets used

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        12 days ago

        Would this not apply even if the unencrypted boot partition is on another physical drive? You still have to enter the passphrase into the prompt at boot. Wouldn’t a compromised boot partition be able to access the passphrase in memory at that time, and use that to access the key?

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          It would, but I assumed the idea was to have the external drive with you at all times so no one could tamper with it. Otherwise I don’t see the benefit, a permanently connected external drive may as well be internal.

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    13 days ago

    The fact that all these communications were pulled from GMail and presumably known to law enforcement for years shows its not signal.

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      12 days ago

      Why does everyone keep saying Gmail? Did no one read his email address? It clearly says Yahoo…

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        Epstein had other email addresses like jeevacation@gmail.com. It largely doesn’t matter other than it being kind of stupid to be using a US based cloud email server when the warrants come in.

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      13 days ago

      Email is never private. The protocol is not secure. You have to add an encryption layer on top to get that, and it’s annoying to manage.

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        13 days ago

        The point I’m making is Gmail is in the cloud and the feds got all the logs. Encryption is one way to protect email. Another is use a server in another jurisdiction. But neither is comparable to Signal.

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    13 days ago

    It’s like that saying about owing the bank money, if it’s small amounts, you have a problem, if tens of billions, it’s the bank’s problem.

    So it goes for being an Israeli honeypot entrapping politicians and swells into raping children and other perversions (and tax evasion,) on camera. You catch one of them doing it is your problem if caught. If you catch a critical mass of them doing it, on camera, it’s their problem.