How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)

Post by lkbm » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 7:13 PM UTC

ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #6

Curious how/who noticed the font detail and knew enough that it could help date the document. However, couldn't the machine identification code from the printer reveal exactly when the document was printed?

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 10:01 PM UTC

rrauenza wrote: post #89

djrogers wrote: post #77

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Yes, on air Dan Rather did in fact claim they were taken directly from Killian’s files and had been ‘authenticated’. The person who sent them to 60 Minutes also claimed they were originals, which he subsequently burned after faxing. CBS then spent the next couple of weeks in a ‘strident defense’ (their own investigators’ words) of the documents and their use, before ceding they screwed up and firing people over the i…

Culturally, this to me is a turning point of the political bloggers -- the knee in the curve of their credibility and a large drop in the trust of the news media, particularly among conservatives. The blogs leading the document debunking were Powerline and Little Green Footballs. This was also when the term Pajamas Media was coined (quote from wikipedia PJ_Media page): > The network's original name was derived from a…

Post by bm1362 » Sat, Jul 07, 2018, 6:51 AM UTC

forapurpose wrote: post #104

philliphaydon wrote: post #40

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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…

>> "Why would anyone use a completely unknown font for an official document in 2006?" De Groot lives in a rarified world where someone would consider this question. Most people never give a thought to which font they are using or whether it's appropriate. Maybe someone just typed the document on a handy computer, on which someone happened to have installed the beta OS. I'm sure he knows hinting and drop caps far bett…

Post by dang » Sun, Jul 08, 2018, 1:16 AM UTC

pknerd wrote: post #45

amriksohata wrote: post #9

Pakistan 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.

Our neighbor's democratic PM has a pro-Hinduism agenda despite of heading a secular state. A year back many opposite voices silents who raised questions about the fake surgical strike. What's your point here by the way?

Post by dang » Sun, Jul 08, 2018, 1:19 AM UTC

selimthegrim wrote: post #23

jessaustin wrote: post #15

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I didn't really understand USA until I spent some time considering Pakistan.

This. Pakistan is a Republican wet dream, if Republicans were Muslim.