Ok, so I've just done a bit of digging on the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 (+the Enhancement Act of 2019), and the General Services Administration, which led me to this: https://presidentialtransition.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/05/GSA-MOU-and-Trump-Transition.pdf
The Eligible Candidate, as a condition of receiving services and office space. shall disclose to the Administrator the date of contribution, source , amount, and expenditure of all monetary contributions, Including currency of the United States and of any foreign nation, checks, money orders, or any other negotiable instruments payable on demand , received for use In the preparation of the Eligible Candidate for the assumption of official duties as President. Disclosures made under this paragraph shall be In the form of a report to the Administrator by February 19, 2017. The report shall be made available to the public by the Administrator upon receipt
GSA will supply software and equipment, and the equipment will be returned by February 19, 2017. This equipment will be Inventoried and all data on these devices will be deleted.
So February 19th is shaking up to be an important day on multiple fronts... We have Sidney/Lin/PA SCOTUS cases, but also it appears that it's a deadline for Bidan's transition team...
So, then I go to try to double-check and reference Biden's Memorandum of Understanding: https://presidentialtransition.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/09/2020_MOU_between_GSA_and_Eligible_Candidate_Biden.pdf
Motherfucker ain't even searchable... If you do ctrl+f "F" (as in February) it highlights all the W's...
So then I try "G" (as in GSA) and it highlights all the X's...
Now I'm starting to notice a pattern... ROT-17 ... I repeat ROT-SEVENTEEN
(caesar cipher, look it up on ddg if you aren't familiar)
If I'm correct in this guess, then when I ctrl+f "H" it should return all the Y's... lemme check real quick, aaaaaaand sure enough, BANG BISCUIT!!!
Now, I'm gonna spare you the details and just give you the raw data of the rest of my findings. Below will be 4 columns: input (what you type into ctrl+f), output (what gets highlighted), occurrences (# of times it appears in the document), notes (a '✔' indicates that I verified that each occurrence is the stated letter; I only looked at those with fewer than 100 results, and there are exceptions in this doc, it's not a perfect 1-for-1 substitution)...
a => r 1229
b s 1045
c t 1710
d u 420
e v 181
f w 155
g x 44 ✔
h y 247
i z 25 ✔
j § 2 ✔
k " 1 ✔
l {?} 4 unknown, perhaps {redacted}
m n/a 0
n n/a 0
o n/a 0
p n/a 0
q n/a 0
r n/a 0
s n/a 0
t n/a 0
u n/a 0
v n/a 0
w n/a 0
x n/a 0
y n/a 0
z n/a 0
0 a 1293
1 b 278
2 c 644
3 d 779
4 e 2484
5 f 537
6 g 262
7 h 637
8 i 1635
9 j 1 ✔
! l 44 n=21, 'i';n=22, 'i' ... possibly others, hard to spot
@ q 46 ✔
# n 66 ✔
$ o 113
% p 147
^ n/a
& q 6 ✔
* u 36 ✔ n=27, 'a'
( s 183
) t 204
- y 8 ✔
_ n/a
= n 1394
+ v 23 ✔
[ n/a
] n/a
\ n/a
{ n/a
} n/a
| n/a
` n/a
~ n/a
; l 759
' r 65 ✔
: k 33 ✔
" m 39 ✔
, w 11 n=2, ' '; n=4, 'c'
. [,e 2 n=1, '['; n=2, 'e'
/ ] 1 ✔
< m 388
> o 1236
? p 479
TLDR- Biden's MOU is encrypted with a modified ROT-17 caesar cipher
I archived the pdf here:
Feel free to copy and post on 8k too...
If you copy and paste from the pdf into the ctrl-f window, you get the rot17 characters. I think like copperlogic said it's probably something they did to prevent it from being searchable. Wouldn't be too hard to script something to subtract the offsets though, the actual text is right there.
Actually it works if you paste into a regular window, can't select the text before page 4 though?
The -- )74
Eligible -- ;8681;4
Candidate -- 0=3830C4
acknowledges -- 02:=>F;4364B
that -- C70C
GSA -- (
candidates -- 20=3830C4B
defined -- 3458=43
basis -- 10B8B
Tried copy paste on the redacted blocks, nothing there of course. "GSA" pastes as ctrl-], (, and a character that deletes the line and returns the cursor to the beginning, probably ctrl-W.
So it might not even be possible to enter the characters for "GSA" into the ctrl-f window, to search for that. Counting backward 17 from A should give "0", zero, so that might've been done on purpose?
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95manual/ascii.html