Evidence of .pdf tampering with transcripts from Dzokhar Tsarnaev's arraignment hearing! May have been authored in 2006!

Attack at the Boston Marathon

(Czech article added on April 23, 2013; English translation added on April 27, 2013.)

On April 15 two explosions occurred at the finishing straight of the Boston marathon, killing 3 people and injuring almost 200 (More than 180 people injured in Boston Marathon bombings expected to live, doctors say). The perpetrators were soon identified as two brothers (26 year old Tamerlan Tsarnaev and 19 year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev) who, along with their parents, in 2002 moved to The United States from Chechnya, i.e. not from The Czech Republic as was stated by some American experts (Twitterers mistake Czech Republic for Chechnya in Boston bombings).

On April 23 while updating News, a transcript of the court hearing from April 22 with the injured 19 year old Dzhokhar came to our attention (it is possible to download it, for example, from CNN – Transcript of Boston terror suspect's first hearing or from our own pages – Tsarnaev hearing transcript). Since the full transcription of the court hearing was in a *.pdf document we downloaded it out of curiosity so that we could have a closer look. A big surprise was waiting for us. According to the displayed properties of the document, at first glance it appears that this file was created on June 2, 2006 in the programme pdfFactory version 3.52 on a PC with Windows XP Home. Except that version 3.52 was not released until December 12, 2009 (pdfFactory Release Notes). For your own research it is enough to download the document, open it in the programme Adobe Reader, Nuance PDF Reader, or similar, and to display the properties of the document. Or it should be enough to press the Ctrl key along with the letter D (Ctrl + D).

Following the end of the court hearing on April 22, 2013, so that the Official Court Reporter, Mr. James P. Gibbons, could create a document with a date of June 2, 2006, the set date on his PC would have to be almost 7 years out of date, or he or someone else would have had to “play” with the file creation date, changing it to 2006, – which is extremely irregular. If he used a Microsoft Word programme from a 2007 version (on sale from the end of 2006) or OpenOffice Writer from version 1.1 (released at the end of 2003) he should not have had any problem saving a document to *.pdf format without requiring another programme like pdfFactory or similar. Important also is the fact that the document contains only the date of creation and not any date of change. This indicates that if no special data modification programme was used in this *.pdf file, then in all probability the document was created without being the modification of an older *.pdf file. Even among IT experts, changing the creation date of a file in pratice is done, let's say, very rarely. In summary, we have in effect three possibilities:

1)the time on the PC was moved back by almost 7 years,

2) the modification date of the document was deleted by means of a special programme and maybe the creation date of the file was amended,

3)this document itself was actually created on June 2, 2006 (later with a special programme added information about the creation in the programme pdfFactory 3.52) and is only now being distributed to the media.

The motive for these above mentioned possibilities let everyone find for themselves.

If, during the creation of the document, only the time on the PC was moved backwards by around 7 years, then it is appropriate to raise the question, what type of PC was it, whether a home PC or a company PC? On a home PC the operating system Windows XP Home is commonplace, however not so much on a company PC. On company PCs today the operating systems Windows Vista or Windows 7 in version Professional are quite widespread. As Windows, when linked to the internet, endeavors to synchronize its own time with an atomic clock every 7 days, it is then highly unprobable that a time shift of almost 7 years would last longer than several weeks. A PC permanently disconnected from the internet would constitute an exception, or a PC which would have the automatic time updates blocked, which is not at all common. All the same, it would be fitting to subject to careful examination the PC on which this document was supposedly created in order to find out the exact date of the making of this file.

It can be possible to justifiably suppose that if a court hearing took place on April 22, 2013, the resultant interview transcriptions should then be saved by a matter of course with the date of April 22, 2013 and not June 2, 2006. The file creation date is also important for the archival of documents and any subsequent retrieval of information. If we then wanted to search through all the documents related to this court hearing and as a search criterion we chose for example the time entry figure from the April 15, 2013, then a document with an older creation date would neither be retrieved nor searched.

At this moment it is too soon to make any conclusions regarding any official or unofficial version. Currently there are more questions than answers. However certainly the following document at least is worth reading (Conspiracy theories swirl around Boston Marathon terrorist attack). For further details we recommend to keep an eye on News.

Boston bombing update

(Article added on June 23, 2013.)

On the April 22, 2013 a transcription of a court hearing with 19 year old Dzhokhar was released. This document was then published, for example, on the pages of CNN and The Wall Street Journal.

On the April 23 we picked up this document and made some analysis, based on which we wrote the above shown article in Czech language, which we then published on our web pages on the very same day. At the same time we sent our article to be translated into English (the article in English language we did not put on the internet until April 27). Several hours after publishing the article in Czech, we detected a visit to our pages (specifically to this article) from someone in The United States Of America using an unknown operating system and an unknown web browser. Within several hours, on the pages of The Wall Street Journalu the original document was altered in such a way that a date of amendment of April 22, 2013 was added whilst the creation date of June 2, 2006 still remained. Other information was left unchanged. This alteration did not occur on CNN.

Following the publication of our article concerning the Boston attack, we throughly analysed further the possibilities regarding the creation of this *.pdf file containing the alleged transcript of the court hearing with Dzhokhar. On several computers with the operating systems Windows XP and 7, we carried out tests with English trial versions of the pdfFactory programme.

Based on in-depth analysis of the official document, and the behaviour of the English trial versions of the pdfFactory programme, it was shown that the document in question could not have been created in the pdfFactory version 3.52 programme despite of the fact that this version is indicated in the properties of the document (see picture below).

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Document Properties

Version 3.52 in fact contains a fault in the underscore of the link www.pdffactory.com in the lower section (foot) of every page of the document, which was, during utilization, transfered to the *.pdf. All higher versions no longer contain this fault, i.e. the manufacturer noticed and repaired it, which certainly cannot be said for the person who, for some reason, strove to adjust the document so that it appears it was created in a trial version of the pdfFactory version 3.52 programme. For changing the properties of the document some special programme was used, – with its utilization the notification concerning the creation of the document in a trial version of the pdfFactory 3.52 programme was forged. Such a special programme is not ordinarily accessible and the profound majority of computer experts (almost 100%) have never come into contact with it. Details are in the picture shown below.

evidence of fraud with version 3.52

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For your own research you can download some of the following versions of the pdfFactory programme directly from the pages of the manufacturer: version 3.50, 3.51, 3.52, 3.53, 4.50, 4.60, 4.70 and 4.81.

We will not go into any speculation regarding the motives concerning any deliberate amendment to the properties of the document, made by utilizing some special programme, but rather concern ourselves with the unmistakeable facts, which are in this instance unambiguous. While the motives can be speculated about for hours, it is enough to speak about the facts for just a couple of minutes. The motive, let everyone look for themselves.