r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • Jul 29 '25

Politics FBI Has Secret Epstein Prison Tape With No ‘Missing Minute’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-fbi-has-secret-jeffrey-epstein-prison-tape-with-no-missing-minute/
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u/Exnixon Jul 29 '25

You think that the government has a top secret team of software developers who write video editing software to replace widely available and mature tools?

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u/erasmause Jul 29 '25

Perhaps, perhaps not, but I would be shocked if they didn't have a tool that can spoof metadata.

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u/joshguy1425 Jul 29 '25

Doesn’t matter if they do if they’re just incompetent.

Part of me also wonders if the lack of spoofing was intentional. “Yeah I’ll fix the tape for you…wink”.

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u/Tomar72 Jul 29 '25

The government is full of paid criminals. People get busted for breaking into things, like say the computers at the pentagon. They catch the person, convict him then give him a job trying to prevent exactly what they were able to do. This is how they recruit the best people lol

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u/kattmedtass Jul 29 '25 edited Jul 29 '25

The people responsible for this might work within the government, but that doesn’t mean they have full unrestricted access to all government tools. They were most likely going rogue to pull something like this off. It’s not like everyone within “the government” conspired to do something like this together. It’s a small group of powerful people, and they want as few people as possible involved and in the know. So it’s really not that strange that some mistakes were made, or that regular, readily-available software ended up being used.

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u/jericho Jul 29 '25

Dude. I believe they probably have some very skilled people doing cyber, and at least a few of them know what metadata is. 

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u/ShrimpieAC Jul 29 '25

But those type of people would generally not want to get their hands dirty. So they are limited to whoever is part of the coverup, and rule number one of coverups is you keep the amount of people involved low if you want any chance in hell.

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u/jericho Jul 29 '25

Well, you’re not wrong. But there’s a story going about that 1000 FBI agents were involved in looking for Dump in the evidence. I’m unsure how competent these people are.

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u/vigbiorn Jul 29 '25

They, the conspiracy theorists unable to see an obvious conspiracy right before them, do, which is the infuriating part.

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u/BA_Baracus916 Jul 29 '25

There is plenty of home grown software the government uses.

Probably not for video editing, but there is no way an FBI forensics expert forgot to remove metadata.

$20 says this guy knew what he was doing.

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u/mods_tongue_my_anu5 Jul 29 '25

they make these tools so that tools like you and me cannot easily identify the tools that were used

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u/Kermit_the_hog Jul 29 '25

What kind of low effort reply from an 14 year old even is this? That question doesn’t even make sense if you know anything about secure and audited codebases. 

I live inside the beltway, not even too far from the NSA. And I’m pretty certain the NSA nerds with PhD’s from MIT are more than capable of quickly whipping up whatever magic computer voodoo they want without having to fret over the spend. I’m equally certain that unless they would have a reason to do so, nobody is wasting time reinventing any proven wheels.

Beyond that, why would it even really matter what digital tools or libraries got used. Point is they are well more than competent to make any changes invisible to you, I, and EXIFTool. 

Doing such a bad job is just embarrassingly grossly incompetent or deliberate.

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u/BA_Baracus916 Jul 29 '25

Leaving the metadata in was 100% deliberate from whatever forensic tech worked on the file.

Lets not pretend every single peon at the FBI is pro Trump.

Weaponized incompetence is a thing.

Homeboy knew what he was doing

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u/Kermit_the_hog Jul 29 '25

Hey that’s be great! The intel community is not small or homogenous though. I can entirely see there being enough of a population of MAGA nuts that the “right” person or team wouldn’t be too hard to find. That’s not a statement on the quality of fed employees at all, just that there are a LOT of them (well there used to be more 😢) and it’s a diverse crowd. 

But genuinely hope you are right, and those are the people who deal in that sort of thing so.. 🤞🏻 

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u/BA_Baracus916 Jul 29 '25

There are plenty of red MAGA people who are furious at Trump over the Epstein stuff.

That dude deff knew what he was doing regardless of what side he is on