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The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

#181

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For a long time Form 1040 was the top Google result for "pdf".

And being produced by the federal government, unencumbered by copyright.

It wouldn’t surprise me if you couldn’t distribute the form globally due to US export restrictions to Iran, NK, etcetera. Obviously not a problem for Apple since it is already restricted/tainted.

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

#182
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For what it's worth the virustotal page[0] for the sha256 hash[1] of the pdf file has it marked as "File distributed by Apple" so it must have been known for some time now? Would be interesting to know when that notice was added but there is no archive of the site unfortunately. [0] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b1674191a88ec5cdd733e424... [1]b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553

They probably enumerated every file found on a fresh install of MacOS. It's possible no human ever actually looked at and recognized the file.

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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No. We're talking in the hundreds of millions of people who either make a 1040 PDF themselves or have one made for them, and every year. The number of people who have used a cryptocurrency is probably larger than but within one order of magnitude of the number of people who have filled out a US 1040. But the number of people who have intentionally downloaded the original Bitcoin whitepaper? That's a tiny, tiny fracti…

Even if only half the people in China or India did that, they would be double the numbers of the US for such tasks. They have taxes, work and PDFs too. For Google search numbers, that would be different considering PDF searches in China wouldn't be done using Google. But perhaps taxes aren't done using PDFs either, that important detail I don't know.

There are significant percentages of people in China and India that have never used the internet on any device at all, let alone opened any PDF.

The number of people filing taxes on a computer in India rounds to zero. For example, a quarter of India is illiterate. And 97+% of them don't make enough money to owe tax. And of the final 3%, many have someone else file for them. https://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-people-india-pay-income-tax....

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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I can think of nothing more important and famous than chicken.pdf https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

Context please?

chicken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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> How many racey pictures of men have been canonicalized like that? To be fair, very few other racy pictures of women have been canonicalized like that, either; about the only pictures I can think of are paintings, specifically the Mona Lisa , which is hardly racy, and Boticelli’s Birth of Venus , which I suppose you might look at as racy, though I wouldn’t particularly. There’s a couple other non-picture works of ar…

Racy picture? Wait, what photo are we talking about? Is this still about the one in andrewfromx's article that shows a woman's face and shoulder?

It's cropped from an explicit photograph published in Playboy.

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

#189
post #65

For what it's worth the virustotal page[0] for the sha256 hash[1] of the pdf file has it marked as "File distributed by Apple" so it must have been known for some time now? Would be interesting to know when that notice was added but there is no archive of the site unfortunately. [0] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b1674191a88ec5cdd733e424... [1]b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553

They probably enumerated every file found on a fresh install of MacOS. It's possible no human ever actually looked at and recognized the file.

That is a possibility I honestly haven't thought about, you are totally right and that probably makes more sense.

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

#190
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The shitstorm using the communist manifesto would cause would be glorious.

There's also the Jolly Roger's Cookbook.

Ahh..one of the most dowloaded text files on every BBS I joined in the early 1990s.
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