Author: Joshua Dzieza
Many of the emails released by the Department of Justice from its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are full of garbled symbols like:
Or:
The scrambled text is so ubiquitous that it's spurred conspiracy theories that it could be some kind of code. But as believable as it might be that a cabal of elite sex traffickers would communicate in a secret language, the reality is probably more boring: The symbols are likely artifacts from the way the Department of Justice converted the emails to PDFs.
"The glyphs and symbols are probably some artifact of a poor conversion process," said Chris Prom, professor and archivist at the University of Il …
Read the full story at The Verge.
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Many of the emails released by the Department of Justice from its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are full of garbled symbols like:
Or:
The scrambled text is so ubiquitous that it's spurred conspiracy theories that it could be some kind of code. But as believable as it might be that a cabal of elite sex traffickers would communicate in a secret language, the reality is probably more boring: The symbols are likely artifacts from the way the Department of Justice converted the emails to PDFs.
"The glyphs and symbols are probably some artifact of a poor conversion process," said Chris Prom, professor and archivist at the University of Il …
Read the full story at The Verge.
Continue reading...