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How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)
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Re: How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)
#62The scandal wasn't near as big, but a similar issue arose during the 2004 US Presidential election. Documents claiming to be from the early 1970s about George W Bush's air national guard service were found to use things like proportional-width fonts - and, indeed, the entire document seems to have just been typed using the default settings for a contemporary version of Word.
Here's some details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy
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#63Re: How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)
#64Pakistan is not a democracy, it is run by the military regardless of who is in power, the ISI it's it's real head of state, which have a pro-islamist agenda but with a slightly modern outlook for economic growth. Regardless if he did any wrongdoing, there have been far worse acts by politicians in Pakistan and they have got away with it.
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#65It's like watching a movie set in the 1950s and noticing someone in the background walking past with his head looking down at a smartphone.
Finally a comment about the article and not about Pakistan.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1344685 > In a separate email, de Groot, the font designer himself, said that while in theory it would have been possible to create a document using Calibri in 2006, the font would have to be obtained from a beta operating system, "from the hands of computer nerds". > "Why would anyone use a completely unknown font for an official document in 2006?" he went on to question. > "If the person u…
Having dealt with so many Pakistani web/graphic designers and photo retouchers back then, I don't think it is highly unlikely at all. There was such a competitive race to the bottom with graphic design work that I could have seen the Prime Minister's son, daughter or anyone in their network having had that font on their computer. At the time of this trial, I always had to laugh about the argument and wondered if I co…
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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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was mostly due to the efforts of one man, Imran Khan.
Yep. Hopefully he wins the current elections. Me and my whole family waited hours in lines to vote for him last elections.
He may be less corrupt than the others but I wish his go-to move wasn't to block traffic to express his displeasure with every policy decision.
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#68I’ve been following this case from the beginning. I think in a country like Pakistan it’s a huge accomplishment! Pakistan is known for its corrupt leaders because they control the system inside out this is probably the first time law is being upheld and people are backing it.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only if the same standard is held to everyone. I don't know any details about this case nor pakistans situation in general, but I know that in most corrupt states, corruption trials are usually used in a power struggle, where one corrupt side brings down the other side, and just has their own corpses better buried and/or is connected better to the investigators/secret intelligence.
Eh, better the powerful bringing each other down than united against the people.
Hm, but it is not like the evil powerful ones would go away this way.
Besides, I don't mind "the powerful" per se. What matters to me is what people do with their power. Whetter it be much power or little. Also with little power you can do bad things.
So I like a fair trial for everyone, no matter the power/money.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1344685 > In a separate email, de Groot, the font designer himself, said that while in theory it would have been possible to create a document using Calibri in 2006, the font would have to be obtained from a beta operating system, "from the hands of computer nerds". > "Why would anyone use a completely unknown font for an official document in 2006?" he went on to question. > "If the person u…
Having dealt with so many Pakistani web/graphic designers and photo retouchers back then, I don't think it is highly unlikely at all. There was such a competitive race to the bottom with graphic design work that I could have seen the Prime Minister's son, daughter or anyone in their network having had that font on their computer. At the time of this trial, I always had to laugh about the argument and wondered if I co…
Then, as Carter wrote, it must be easy to find documents by one of them also using Calibri.