How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)

Re:How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Ministe... by arif_sohaib on Friday July 06, 2018 @10:13AM (#17471509)

I double Hamza Shahbaz or Mariam Nawaz even know how to use Word on a normal PC, let alone get and install beta software.

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Re:How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Ministe... by deltateam on Friday July 06, 2018 @10:42AM (#17471754)

Its not my problem that the defense never brought it up.

Shows a real lack of imagination.

"Actually we used to moonlight on Craigslist and routinely searched for fonts in leaked beta software to differentiate ourselves"

Now I'm being facetious.

But there are a lot of probable ways a font was added, ESPECIALLY for people that aren't good with computers. A toolbar added by a hacker group could have stolen fonts in it.

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Re:How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Ministe... by jamespo on Friday July 06, 2018 @11:53AM (#17472420)

A lot of improbable ways

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Re:How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Ministe... by Life_exe on Friday July 06, 2018 @02:30PM (#17473953)

"A toolbar added by a hacker group could have stolen fonts in it."

Any mention of the existence of such a toolbar would have helped them some bit. If the doc author was a font-nerd, that font would be none other than helvetica.

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