Age Verification | United States Department of Justice
www.justice.gov

Serious (if hilarious) question. Someone linked me to this, but they were unable to provide context, but it’s an official justice.gov link!

I’ve been following the news around latest release (who hasn’t) but I’ve not done any digging into the actual files myself. I was wondering if someone who’s more familiar with them could provide some context as to why this is in there? I don’t really want to wade through that filth myself, honestly, but I did try searching “BASH” but didn’t really see anything that looked relevant.

Was Epstein pro FOSS? Was someone helping him troubleshoot something? WTF is this doing there!? I have to know!?

Tux has some explaining to do!

  • rtxn@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 hours ago

    My hypothesis:

    • Someone in Epstein’s circle had to be the IT guy.
    • That IT guy wanted to have the Bash documentation locally (which is sensible, I do too).
    • A discovery subpoena might request “all documents referencing (something)”, which boils down to an extremely loose string search, and the documents’ relevance to the case are determined later.
    • The Bash documentation was caught by the algorithm because it contained some word they were searching for.

    For all we know, the lawyers might’ve been looking for the word “child” and the algorithm found “child processes”.

    • Kraiden@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Nah, I’ve got no issue accessing the pdf. I’m using the piefed web frontend on desktop.

      It seems like the issue is that link shouldn’t be parsed as a pdf file, but rather as an html document, so that it can do age verification, after that, it should redirect you to the PDF.

      You might be able to open it on mobile by copy pasting the link to your mobile browser, so you can get past the age verification

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 day ago

        Yes, I’ve finally found that exact copy/paste workaround.

        Still, who guesses that tapping on a link might not work? 🤔