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I scrolled over the dossier and there nothing significant there, most of it is bunch of things he said, his investments, property, donations, tickets, taxes and

I scrolled over the dossier and there nothing significant there, most of it is bunch of things he said, his investments, property, donations, tickets, taxes and so on. Most of the information can be found online, this is just complied into one PDF file.

jeffbee 2y ago
What PDF reader would you trust to open and run a document reportedly produced by Iranian intelligence?
- jimjimjim 2y ago
  Any reader that has only bothered to implement pdf object processing and page rendering. Or just any pdf reader that doesn't have pdf javascript implemented
- phatfish 2y ago
  I used Firefox.
- Psillisp 2y ago
  My Nintendo Switch
- whyohwhyoh 2y ago
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- deleted 2y ago
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- hn_acker 2y ago
  Rather than a PDF reader, how about a PDF sanitizer? I've heard of Dangerzone [1][2], though I've never used it. [1] https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone [2] https://dangerzone.rocks/ https://dangerzone.rocks/
tptacek 2y ago
This is why no major media outlet ran this story when the hackers offered the documents a month or two ago: there's literally nothing in it. It's a standard opposition research report. The Harris campaign has a document just like it on their own Google Drive. It isn't even directionally interesting; it records every line of attack the GOP could imagine Vance facing (they missed "childless cat ladies", though!), and so calls out places where Vance is in line with Trump as well as places he isn't. All the real stories about this piece are going to be from people like Klippenstein and Musk beclowning themselves over it.
- rideontime 2y ago
  Is Klippenstein self-beclowning? He readily admits in the piece that it's pretty much a nothingburger.
  - nickthegreek 2y ago
    He is using it as advertising. Saying he will publish what others won’t so subscribe to me.
    - rideontime 2y ago
      Is that a bad thing?
- spamizbad 2y ago
  The omission of the "Childless Cat Ladies" comment is arguably pretty newsworthy since it has a bunch of implications, most notably being its the attack line that likely drew blood so to speak (the other a potential campaign blind-spot for how to communicate with female voters, a demographic the Trump campaign has struggled with)
  - SpicyLemonZest 2y ago
    It's just so stacked in conditionals, and the document doesn't even prove whether they didn't consider it a problem or just didn't know about it. I'm not saying it's some tragedy that this document got published, but it makes perfect sense to me that big newsrooms didn't think there was anything in here worth becoming a mouthpiece for some anonymous "Robert" guy. Independent journalists have more flexibility in this kind of thing because they don't have to develop and enforce editorial policies. Presumably newspapers will have more to say about the dossier now that it's already public.
mayneack 2y ago
Yeah, the only novel info in this story is the twitter suspension. Very counter productive if Elon was trying to suppress this.
karlzt 2y ago
>> complied compiled

jeffbee 2y ago

What PDF reader would you trust to open and run a document reportedly produced by Iranian intelligence?

jimjimjim 2y ago
Any reader that has only bothered to implement pdf object processing and page rendering. Or just any pdf reader that doesn't have pdf javascript implemented
phatfish 2y ago
I used Firefox.
Psillisp 2y ago
My Nintendo Switch
whyohwhyoh 2y ago
[dead]
deleted 2y ago
[deleted]
hn_acker 2y ago
Rather than a PDF reader, how about a PDF sanitizer? I've heard of Dangerzone [1][2], though I've never used it. [1] https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone [2] https://dangerzone.rocks/ https://dangerzone.rocks/

tptacek 2y ago

This is why no major media outlet ran this story when the hackers offered the documents a month or two ago: there's literally nothing in it. It's a standard opposition research report. The Harris campaign has a document just like it on their own Google Drive. It isn't even directionally interesting; it records every line of attack the GOP could imagine Vance facing (they missed "childless cat ladies", though!), and so calls out places where Vance is in line with Trump as well as places he isn't. All the real stories about this piece are going to be from people like Klippenstein and Musk beclowning themselves over it.

rideontime 2y ago
Is Klippenstein self-beclowning? He readily admits in the piece that it's pretty much a nothingburger.
- nickthegreek 2y ago
  He is using it as advertising. Saying he will publish what others won’t so subscribe to me.
  - rideontime 2y ago
    Is that a bad thing?
spamizbad 2y ago
The omission of the "Childless Cat Ladies" comment is arguably pretty newsworthy since it has a bunch of implications, most notably being its the attack line that likely drew blood so to speak (the other a potential campaign blind-spot for how to communicate with female voters, a demographic the Trump campaign has struggled with)
- SpicyLemonZest 2y ago
  It's just so stacked in conditionals, and the document doesn't even prove whether they didn't consider it a problem or just didn't know about it. I'm not saying it's some tragedy that this document got published, but it makes perfect sense to me that big newsrooms didn't think there was anything in here worth becoming a mouthpiece for some anonymous "Robert" guy. Independent journalists have more flexibility in this kind of thing because they don't have to develop and enforce editorial policies. Presumably newspapers will have more to say about the dossier now that it's already public.

mayneack 2y ago

Yeah, the only novel info in this story is the twitter suspension. Very counter productive if Elon was trying to suppress this.

karlzt 2y ago

>> complied compiled