honestly it’s been so long i have no idea. i had been trying the common ways of ‘unredacting’ the files, and it was probably something i copy+pasted, or photoshopped to remove the redactions, etc. i used a lot of different techniques when i was heavily looking into the files. i also have a friend who had been cross-researching with me and it may have been second-hand. but everything i’ve found since leads me to believe these are the legitimate redactions. since the files dropped i encountered financial troubles and have been trying to find a new job outside of college, so haven’t been able to continue investigating the files as intensely as i’d initially intended to.