[LT-02]
The December 2025 Redaction Failure
When the US Department of Justice released the Epstein files in December 2025, the coverage quickly shifted from the documents' content to their redactions — and specifically to how easily those redactions could be bypassed.
The mechanism was straightforward: text "redacted" using black highlighting in PDF files remains present in the PDF's text layer. Copy the black box into a text editor, and the underlying text appears. The visual concealment was not ...