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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
drew@eigenmagic.net ("Drew Mayo") wrote:

I wrote up how it works here, but it’s really just some bit twiddling and a dumb idea.

But to quote myself:

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What are the implications?

Nothing! This was just for fun after a discussion with a colleague whether it might be even possible to make base64 blobs look readable. There's certainly no poorly coded systems out there which might be hooked up to read emails or webpages and interpret any text they see as information.

No siree I'm sure everyone is keeping the attachments and the content well and truly isolated from each other and this couldn't possibly do anything other than be a fun proof of concept and excuse for me to play with wasm.

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