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Re:The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS by greyface- on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:19PM (#35461186) 

  $ wget https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
  [...]
  $ openssl sha256 bitcoin.pdf 
  SHA256(bitcoin.pdf)= b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553
  $ openssl sha256 /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf
  SHA256(/System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf)= b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553
(Ventura 13.3)
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Re:The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS by birdyrooster on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:23PM (#35461898)
and a universal hash collision attack!? this is amazing stuff from apple
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Re:The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS by eru on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:24PM (#35463349)
They'd also need great compression to put more inside the pdf.
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