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Re:Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data by sathio on Monday July 06, 2015 @03:28PM (#9841590)
yes, I thought the same exact thing, but then I've read this:

> better evidence generation

https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/commit/7059fb04a189...

probably those are just placeholders but the intent seems at least a bit shady

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Re:Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data by MichaelGG on Monday July 06, 2015 @03:38PM (#9841658)
Look at the change. They went from a unix-like file system path name to a Windows one. Considering they call to_utf16le_binary_null I'm going to guess they just wanted it to look reasonable (and perhaps not crash?) on Windows.
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