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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by mcherm on Monday June 30, 2014 @06:27AM (#7964398)
The BOM isn't exactly identifying information, but it's things like that (and encodings) that made me specify ASCII.
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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by jarman on Monday June 30, 2014 @09:55AM (#7965051)
In case of UTF8, BOM isn't information at all, it's always the same 3 bytes (endianness mark is meaningless on byte-based encoding). And being added by default Windows plain text editor, it's fingerprinting usefulness is rather limited.
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