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    4 days ago

    Dude was borderline illiterate Epstein was a super-genius who made major innovations to the English language, particularly regarding punctuation.

    Some of the formatting weirdness is probably from HTML->plain text conversion. I suspect that the random “=” that frequently appear might be from sloppy GPG decryption on the FBI’s part?

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        I hadn’t thought of that. These aren’t raw email though; so what did they use to retrieve them that failed to parse/strip basic imap commands? Seems even weirder.

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        I’m curious about that myself. Seems like insanely bad opsec for someone associated with Mossad (to say the least) to just put all this out there on gmail servers in plaintext.

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          pretty sure saw some “sent from my IPhone” , which suggests apple mail , which only supports S/MIME encryption , same with “sent from my Samsung”/Samsung mail

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            That’s a good point. I’ve definitely seen some iPhone signatures in a number of the emails. Although, you can always copy-paste the encrypted text to/from any other tool. In which case – and maybe I’m being too ungenerous here, two steps to compose or read an email does seem pretty complicated for people who can’t write a coherent sentence.