Post B3QSPGycaQlABUx8To by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #B3QQr1pmHRCNQ7vJlg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-17T21:52:40Z
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I find this shocking:In the recent file release we have new documents that show that the prison footage of Epstein's cell was deleted by an FBI agent who was advised (or someone was advised) that this action would delete the footage. ... OK. Sure. Great. Wonderful. Makes total sense. This has not gotten much traction and it's making me feel a little like a crazy person. Is anyone going to ask why the FBI deleted this footage?
(DIR) Post #B3QR4cconsjDI3LN6e by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-17T21:55:06Z
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Maybe I'm just reading this incorrectly. Why would they delete the footage?
(DIR) Post #B3QRBm6DycTOhXVbwe by mhoye@cosocial.ca
2026-02-17T21:56:24Z
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@futurebird so, uhThat reads like "one drive in a mirroring raid pair failed" - as in, one of two drives that things are simultaneously recorded to". In that scenario, "installing new hard drives" means the system reboots and formats the new drives, which absolutely makes sense.It doesn't explain what happened to the other drives.
(DIR) Post #B3QRW8pv9Ost0iavNg by TerryHancock@realsocial.life
2026-02-17T22:00:00Z
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@futurebird This says that replacing the hard drives would delete all prior video..?Why?Normally, I would expect that you'd read the drives on another machine to recover the video data?Did they throw away the old drives? Because it's possible to recover data even from a damaged hard drive -- it's an expensive and time consuming process for *me*, but not really for the FBI.The only reason that I can think of for this is some kind of built-in security measure, but surely even if so, that could be defeated? :welp: Is the data really gone? Or just sitting on a defunct HDD in storage..?And if the data was lost, what was that weird fix-up they published..?
(DIR) Post #B3QRdQ3fWErERxUlvM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-17T22:01:20Z
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@goaty Murder or someone taking actions to make it easier for him to do it himself.I have no idea how he died and we may never ever know. What I do see is evidence that looks like a cover up. And nobody cares. Nobody cares. They killed him, or they told him "we will kill you if you don't" who knows. Or maybe it's something else. But did you know no one his killed themself in that prison for 21 years? This isn't some poorly run place.
(DIR) Post #B3QRksfDYvPDCCcHaq by Jestbill@mastodon.world
2026-02-17T22:02:43Z
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@futurebird I'm old enough to remember when pulling old hard drives did not delete info on them.
(DIR) Post #B3QRmLrmTOWe3WC6JE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-17T22:03:03Z
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@goaty The more I look into the MCC the more I'm convinced that this incident makes no sense. For guards it's kind of a sought after place to work since there is a high ratio of guards to inmates and it had a reputation for being a safer and less chaotic place to work. Someone must know something.
(DIR) Post #B3QRwAhuojUWLHGJyy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-17T22:04:49Z
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@TerryHancock What they published was the only camera that was working and that survived this little data purge I think?And it just so happens to be an angle where you can't see the door and can't prove that no one went to that cell. OK. Cool. This is fine.
(DIR) Post #B3QSJfelulhUzRzsrg by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2026-02-17T22:09:01Z
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@futurebird https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DZoGEHzZNRsMjfpfE/addendum-a-non-magical-explanation-of-jeffrey-epstein seems convincing, alternate explanation just seems too crazy, requires insane coincidences / collusion / skills
(DIR) Post #B3QSMEWnEcnFikUG0G by thesquirrelfish@sfba.social
2026-02-17T22:09:30Z
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@futurebird I assume the person who deleted the footage also killed him or is covering him. It's the same thing I assume when cops body or car cams aren't working in other circumstances .. maybe billionaires aren't as different as the rest of us all the time.
(DIR) Post #B3QSPGycaQlABUx8To by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-17T22:10:04Z
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@goaty The detail about the guards not doing their checks that night (but this wasn't a pattern for these guards (!) this is a good job as far as working in corrections goes why mess it up?? ) That detail wild to me and makes no sense. The guards got in a little trouble for failing to do these checks. But then? Those charges are DROPPED.Look at this sketchy article:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59839724Come on. Come on man.
(DIR) Post #B3QSUrsaoJ7Q5Hnil6 by waitworry@sakurajima.moe
2026-02-17T22:11:04Z
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@futurebird there are so many things wrong with this whole thing it is kind of hard to keep track of all the things we should be mad about
(DIR) Post #B3QSVkDily6acS6MBk by TerryHancock@realsocial.life
2026-02-17T22:11:05Z
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@futurebird Okay, I can see that much. 🤔 I still don't understand why a hard drive has to be erased to replace it?I don't have much experience with surveillances systems, per se, but I've replaced a LOT of hard drives over the years.And this was never thing -- except that you'd erase a drive with secure info to dispose of it. Is that what they meant? Because it seems like, particularly after the incident, you'd hang onto that data.Unless you were intentionally destroying evidence, of course.So was this document essentially a lie to try to make an intentional deletion look like some kind of technical limitation? 🤔
(DIR) Post #B3QSkTBUOVoC7v4xxw by nobody@mastodon.acm.org
2026-02-17T22:13:56Z
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@mhoyeUh. I never actually used _raid_ raids, but uhh why should it wipe instead of resilver?@futurebird
(DIR) Post #B3QSmzMBkT3kUHHiIi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-17T22:14:21Z
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@waitworry I don't want to believe in a conspiracy theory. :(But I can't rule it out, sorry. :(
(DIR) Post #B3QT3OpQoTjc7TmvZo by nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social
2026-02-17T22:17:18Z
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@futurebird To me this reads less like "he knew there would be something on there" and more like "didn't care or wanted to remove anything without really checking."I'm of the mind that no actual literal assassination took place, but that the people involved were fans of Trump and choosing to take someone who was in a position to be suicidal (and had already shown such tendencies) off of suicide watch was kind of just sort of *hoping* that the inevitable would happen.
(DIR) Post #B3QT5kKdppr9OGVOr2 by lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net
2026-02-17T22:17:39Z
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@futurebird I certainly don't want to exclude foul play but as a system technician I can assure you that this could be just lazy incompetence ("not deleting the files would mean a bit of additional work so why would I bother ?").Of course, acting like you're lazy is a good way to disguise a cover-up...
(DIR) Post #B3QTAnME0u6ODoeaHI by DrorBedrack@mastodon.social
2026-02-17T22:18:34Z
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@futurebird It's a bit confusing. It seems the system was badly maintained and failing for some time before Epstein's death,and that repairing it would destroy the saved footage. But it's not clear from this what was on it before the repair and if they copied it out first.I remember a Coffeezila video showing the limited video angle from outside of the cell, and that there were 2 minutes missing.
(DIR) Post #B3QU0tf1p6LupUID1U by DrorBedrack@mastodon.social
2026-02-17T22:24:23Z
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@TerryHancock @futurebird or [redacted] didnt understand it or explained it wrong. Of course if you replace the HD the files would no longer be in the system, and so appear to be "deleted"
(DIR) Post #B3QU0ubWJd8lktevC4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-17T22:28:04Z
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@DrorBedrack @TerryHancock This makes more sense. The system might have a way to browse files from drives that were plugged in. "Pull" the drive and it's "gone"It's not clear where the "pulled" drive went.
(DIR) Post #B3QU1FLHDDco4bDkI4 by admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com
2026-02-17T22:28:08Z
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@nobody @mhoye @futurebird Maybe if there wasn't enough data to rebuild? Like if it's a three drive array, you could lose one and rebuild the data, but lose two out of three and there's no way to recover that (assuming it's net RAID1). You might still be able to use forensic tools to recover some partial data but not complete files so the DVR would just wipe it out and start over.RAID3 or RAID5 would work that way I think...wiki also says RAID3 is "suitable for applications that demand the highest transfer rates in long sequential reads and writes, for example uncompressed video editing." so that seems to fit.
(DIR) Post #B3QUQGSKCzq8lbRm6q by _L1vY_@mstdn.social
2026-02-17T22:32:37Z
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@futurebird Pretty sure we did at the time and it was simply glossed over unsatisfactorily. 🤷🏻‍♀️Real conspiracies are almost always in the favor of the rich and powerful, whereas conspiracy "theories" involve machinations of someone marginalized or powerless.I don't find it at all far-fetched that a witness against scores and scores of the most rich and powerful people in the world, would be eliminated by them.
(DIR) Post #B3QUgRhEBWj4GH8L5c by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-17T22:35:35Z
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@_L1vY_ I just mean "conspiracy" in the sense that there is a group of people who know the truth and they have covered it up from the general public on a very large and public matter. Even if it was "just" a case of "letting" him do it himself. That's still a huge miscarriage of justice. The fact that he made that strange phone call to "his mom" (his mom is dead) the night before makes this seem possible ... who did he call?A prison doesn't have phone records???
(DIR) Post #B3QUoCGFSLwkhtD5Jg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-17T22:36:58Z
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@bflipp @goaty Why would he want to do that? I don't know much about him.
(DIR) Post #B3QV05B5cKjUDJSs64 by _L1vY_@mstdn.social
2026-02-17T22:39:07Z
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@futurebird Yes. I'm saying this would fall into the territory of "believable" to me. It's not fantastical, nor does it go against prevailing sociological patterns.
(DIR) Post #B3QWEzcwdY4nIRARTk by mhoye@cosocial.ca
2026-02-17T22:36:48Z
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@admin @nobody @futurebird this was a 16 drive machine…..
(DIR) Post #B3QWF0lUPGVOpEAmR6 by admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com
2026-02-17T22:42:11Z
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@mhoye @nobody @futurebird What? Where do you see that?Only one drive of 16 was working? So 15 had failed? And then they replaced "both"? What am I missing? I don't see how that math works lol
(DIR) Post #B3QWF29HGJ7z7IJI9Y by nobody@mastodon.acm.org
2026-02-17T22:53:03Z
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@adminThe PDF linked above@mhoye @futurebird
(DIR) Post #B3QWhr4RWq459mnADQ by morpheo@social.spejset.org
2026-02-17T22:57:35Z
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@futurebirdI'd say someone is sitting on those harddrives...
(DIR) Post #B3QWtIPCEswP7SxFUu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-17T23:00:19Z
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@morpheo If they contain nothing that contradicts the official story... why sit on them.If they contain evidence that contradicts the story? Why keep them?I think they have been destroyed.
(DIR) Post #B3QZIvUcFYVVUjq4Po by admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com
2026-02-17T23:27:23Z
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@nobody @mhoye @futurebird Ah, that wasn't in the thread so I had to open the top post in my browser to find it.Still confused on the math though. And this doc calls it an "NP-2000" but when I put that into a search engine I get zero results. And without the hyphen all I get is an NEC projector. Maybe it's the Nicevision Pro NVR-2000? But that only supports 6 drives according to the spec sheet, although probably using the iSCSI interface so that might not matter. The PDF also refers to a "Dell Powerridge R420" but there is no such thing as a "Dell Powerridge", it's PowerEDGE...so this PDF has a lot of errors to begin with. I assume the "Premium 8600" is an Arena Maxtronic Premium 8600, super old but that probably makes sense.But even if there were 16 drives present that doesn't necessarily mean all 16 were in use and part of the same RAID array. Could be hot spares, could be a separate array maybe, could just be off. And given the other errors on this doc and considering it doesn't detail the drives themselves I wouldn't be surprised if "containing 16 drives" just refers to it having 16 bays -- the Arena model mentioned above supports 16 but can operate with as few as 2.Again, if it's got 16 drives, how was only one of those drives operational and how did replacing only two fix it? Admittedly I'm no expert in these systems but none of this information seems to fit together properly to me. And there are pretty obvious errors in the inventory list.
(DIR) Post #B3Qcnk7MtKVT3VLp2G by zl2tod@mastodon.online
2026-02-18T00:06:30Z
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@futurebird Did you see this ?Wherein people found that by changing the extensions of released files unreleased information could be found?Particularly some of the links in the now heavily censored reddit thread which are to footage in the prison from which only screenshots were officially released.https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/116062157768572927
(DIR) Post #B3QczG3UUNeRIF1o7U by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
2026-02-18T00:08:35Z
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@futurebird The FBI routinely conspires to protect powerful people. That's what it's for.This doesn't get much traction because everyone already knows that the FBI does this. Look at pretty much any previous FBI case connected to politics.
(DIR) Post #B3QgrsbJh2iuL9aSyu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-18T00:52:07Z
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@richpuchalsky "This doesn't get much traction because everyone already knows that the FBI does this."Rich you know this. I know this, but I don't think "everyone" knows this nor do I think it's not what your typical person would find... boring. No. Not at all.
(DIR) Post #B3QimAwqlVgNPk4DlA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-18T01:13:29Z
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@zl2tod I find the theory that Epstein is still alive deeply annoying and I kind of struggle to explain why?Maybe it's because it makes *me* feel silly:I want to think that *my* skepticism is... mostly reasonable. Informed even? IDK. But also, I just don't think it would happen. He was a very useful and connected person, but no one cared enough to go through all the work and danger of "getting him out" Why?Even Epstein was disposable to these people.
(DIR) Post #B3Qiq2FD4HNVZtUl3g by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-18T01:14:11Z
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@zl2tod That said this that thing they have blocking the view is... it's just another odd thing that I do not like. The stuff this guy found is interesting.
(DIR) Post #B3Qjynqo3J89UtpEEC by zl2tod@mastodon.online
2026-02-18T01:26:57Z
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@futurebird Agreed, I see no evidence for the still alive thing, but there is at least circumstantial evidence for the murder hypothesis.
(DIR) Post #B3QkLcGZHzuaEGklhA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-18T01:31:06Z
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@zl2tod My annoyance with it goes deeper than the lack of evidence. Normally when you have a company or the government acting shady like this. I'm rather patient with the theories that grow to fill the gap. They earned it.But the idea that's "Epstein is alive" is just so detached from how any of this could possibly work ... it's TV series thinking. *Who* would want to keep him alive? Isn't the whole point that there were so many who wanted him gone?
(DIR) Post #B3QkWuvYFScdI5JNlA by zl2tod@mastodon.online
2026-02-18T01:33:07Z
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@futurebird Which begs the question of who may wish to promote irrational hypotheses. It's Q-Anon territory. Distraction.
(DIR) Post #B3QkfJwH8hlpBCeoim by quinn@social.circl.lu
2026-02-18T01:34:37Z
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@futurebird They're all disposable to each other, all in a giant game of insecurity and status that drives them insane. None of them can sit quietly, by themselves, thinking, and just be ok, much less happy.
(DIR) Post #B3QkplWTREA5cpZMTA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-18T01:36:31Z
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@bflipp @goaty I thought you were implying that he doesn't want to investigate further. Has he said he's opposed to doing it?I would imagine he might have some mixed feelings about the guy. He might also be scared of the people who could have killed him?Exhuming is expensive. Who would pay for it? He has a medical examiner but unless he plans on suing the government what is the point?
(DIR) Post #B3Ql2ApBC13DZXEetE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-18T01:38:48Z
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@zl2tod I kind of wonder if the "he lives" story is out there to make the much less wild "maybe they just let him kill himself because it solved some problems" theoryand the "someone killed him" theoryseem less credible. I consider both very reasonable. Impossible to rule out. Silly not to consider.
(DIR) Post #B3Qn2lWqvVS1Jj4bK4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-18T02:01:18Z
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@quinn It's kind of the only way I can rationalize the way the treated all those young women, and teens, and "tweens" ... and little girls. It's not a rare or bizarre kind of evil. It's the cruelty of the kind of voice says "well that's how the world works honey, life's not fair"There aren't "friends" or "family" just useful (and useless) people.
(DIR) Post #B3QnI3GJHFVGewcm9Y by paninid@mastodon.world
2026-02-18T02:04:02Z
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@futurebird @quinn People with pathologies view the world as enablers and everyone else.
(DIR) Post #B3Qne6MyP854fTFtpI by mister914@masto.ai
2026-02-18T02:07:59Z
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@futurebird I read that they had the statement about his death written the day BEFORE he died too.I wonder if he isn't alive.
(DIR) Post #B3Qo6Z3rK4WVlIt3Zo by level98@mastodon.social
2026-02-18T02:13:10Z
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@futurebird @zl2tod "Even Epstein was disposable to these people."They would all happily throw each other under a bus if it benefited them.
(DIR) Post #B3QpOmBxLGrzeVvF7g by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-18T02:27:42Z
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@mister914 I don't think so. Too much of a loose end.
(DIR) Post #B3QqosN95NFGIvAIsa by quinn@social.circl.lu
2026-02-18T02:43:35Z
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@futurebird it's a deeply tragic life. It's gone so wrong that they lose sight of basic human decency, and there's no one who can sit them down and get them on the straight and narrow.
(DIR) Post #B3Qsq6BDR0w3KFIPCK by Laukidh@infosec.exchange
2026-02-18T03:06:13Z
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@futurebird @waitworry yeah, I feel like trying to explain this stuff makes me sound off my rocker https://infosec.exchange/@Laukidh/116083214080559202
(DIR) Post #B3Qxpf0swHogqB4fFg by clawfulneutral@soc.port0.org
2026-02-18T04:02:15.790507Z
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@futurebird they deleted it because Epstein didn’t kill himself.