How to crack the redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition

It turns out, though, that those redactions are possible to crack. That’s because the deposition includes a complete alphabetized index of the redacted and unredacted words that appear in the document. For example, after cracking the redactions, we know that Maxwell was asked about an email that Dershowitz allegedly sent to Epstein. In that email, Dershowitz reportedly wrote that he was “working on several possible articles about unfairness in the legal process that allows false charges to be inserted into legal documents.”

Here’s how to deduce the redacted words, using former President Bill Clinton as an example.

You can see in the index that a word that falls alphabetically between clients and clock appears on quite a number of pages. From this, we know that the word starts with the letters CL.

The index indicates that this word shows up on the seventh line of page 135. If we go to page 135, we can see that in this instance the word Clinton has not been redacted.

On other pages listed in the same index entry, the word Clinton has been redacted. See page 104. (The redacted word that appears before Clinton, in these cases, is President.)

Sauce:

>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/ghislaine-maxwell-deposition-redactions-epstein-how-to-crack.html

Ghislaine Maxwell 2016 deposition

>https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rwprHVNZoobM/v0

>https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7274479/Maxwell-Deposition-2016.pdf