Post #238352
2026-02-06 00:07 UTC
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@apftwb@lemmy.world 2026-02-06 01:23
Some of the Epstein emails were released as scanned PDFs of raw email format ([See MIME](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME)) MIME formatted emails are ASCII based. To include an attachments, which can be binary, the MIME format specifies it must be encoded using base64. Base64 can always take binary input and return an ASCII output. This is trivial to reverse if you have the ASCII output. However, the font choice is inconvenient because l and 1 look the same. I'm a bit confused by the article is only discussing extracting PDFs while in actuality you can reverse any attachment including images. I am also no expert, so a smarter person will now correct me on anything I got wrong.
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@vatlark@lemmy.world 2026-02-06 00:44
I think this is the origin: https://xkcd.com/356/